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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 of argument-structure in Chris Manning's Ergativity to facilitate the description of how complex predicates are assembled. In both of these aspects the result is a framework that preserves the descriptive parsimony of LFG while taking on key ideas from HPSG.

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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Predicate composition; 3. Romance complex predicates; 4. Serial verb constructions; 5. Conclusions and prospects; A. Glue language semantics; B. Previous proposals; Bibliography.

Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in

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      Publisher Centre for the Study of Language & Information
      Published 1 June 1999
      ISBN-13 9781575861647
      978-1575861647
      ISBN-10 157586164X
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Grammar, syntax and morphology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 of argument-structure in Chris Manning's Ergativity to facilitate the description of how complex predicates are assembled. In both of these aspects the result is a framework that preserves the descriptive parsimony of LFG while taking on key ideas from HPSG.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Predicate composition; 3. Romance complex predicates; 4. Serial verb constructions; 5. Conclusions and prospects; A. Glue language semantics; B. Previous proposals; Bibliography.

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