Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in Lfg

by Christopher D. Manning and Avery D. Andrews

Book Overview

This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in Romance, and certain serial verb constructions in Tariana and Miskitu. The authors argue for replacing the projection architecture of LFG with a notion of differential information spreading within a unified feature structure. Another important feature is the use of the conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157586164X
• ISBN13: 9781575861647
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 164 Pages