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Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field.
Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades
Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from...
In a series of seven studies, this paper examines acoustic characteristics of the spontaneous speech production of the English dative alternation (gave the book to the boy/ the boy the book) as a function of the probability of the choice between alternating constructions. Probabilistic effects on the acoustic duration were observed in the acoustic signal at the choice point (the first word that commits...
Bresnan et al. (2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English speakers’ syntactic choices with ‘give’-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that these results are consistent with probabilistic models of grammar, which assume that grammar is quantitive, and learned from exposure to other speakers. Such a model would also predict syntactic differences across time and...
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