The hypothesis of the autonomy of syntax makes special demands on one of the central issues in linguistic theory: the specification of correspondences between a lexical conceptual and syntactic structure. One strategy is to distinguish several layers of lexical representation and allow only one of them to be "visible" to syntactic and morphological processes (cf. Pinker 1989, Grimshaw 1990). A ...

A foundational assumption of traditional generative grammar is that a grammar is organized in the mind of the speaker as a number of hermetically sealed modules, which in the course of a derivation hand off data one to the other.1 Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) assumes that the grammar contains no such modules, but rather that grammar is an inventory of signs, complexes of linguistic co...

This document describes the lexical interface for nite-state syntax as it is currently implemented and used for the development of the French constraint grammar. The system includes nite-state transducers for multiword expressions, for capitalised, misspelt or unknown words and for accent recovery. It also encodes general multiword expressions such as dates or idioms. The tokeniser includes a n...

The topic of this paper is the manner in which syntactic voice alternations (and syntactic configurations more generally) relate to voice morphology, and the implications of this for theories of voice and theories of morphology/syntax interactions. I argue based on the voice system of Modern Greek for three primary points: first, that treatments taking voice morphology as corresponding to a syn...

This paper focuses on the microvariation concerning distribution and functions of certain interrogative discourse particles found in several central southern Italian dialects. These show many similarities terms both their morphological shapes (being homophonous to wh-phrase corresponding English ‘what’) syntactic within sentence, that they all occur at beginning polar questions. However, a care...

Bögel et al. (2009) outlined a new architecture for modeling the interaction between prosody and syntax: we proposed an arrangement of interacting components in which prosodic information is developed in a module that operates independently of the syntax while still allowing for syntactic rules and preferences to be conditioned on prosodic boundaries and other features. This architecture allows...