"The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It analyses the most important phenomena in the preverbal domain of Hungarian finite declarative and wh-clauses: sentence structure, operators, verbal modifiers, negation and copula constructions. Based on the results of earlier generative linguistic research, it presents the fundamental empirical generalisations and offers a comparative critical assessment of the most salient analyses in a variety of generative linguistic models from its own perspective. It argues for a lexical approach to the relevant phenomena and develops the first comprehensive analysis in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. It also reports the successful implementation of crucial aspects of this analysis in the computational linguistic platform of the theory, Xerox Linguistic Environment"--.

• LEXICALISING CLAUSAL SYNTAX
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of contents
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 The framework: Lexical-Functional Grammar
    • 1.1.1 On the architecture of LFG
    • 1.1.2 LFG as compared to other generative theories
      • 1.1.2.1 On GB and MP on Hungarian
      • 1.1.2.2 On generative argument structure grammar on Hungarian
      • 1.1.2.3 On head-driven phrase structure grammar on Hungarian
      • 1.1.2.4 A comparison of LFG, MP, GASG and HPSG
  • 1.2 The implementational platform: Xerox linguistic environment
  • 1.3 The structure and content of the book
• Chapter 2. The basic structure of Hungarian finite clauses
  • 2.1 On previous generative approaches to Hungarian sentence structure
    • 2.1.1 GB and MP approaches
    • 2.1.2 GASG
    • 2.1.3 HPSG
  • 2.2 On some previous LFG(-compatible) analyses of Hungarian sentence structure
  • 2.3 Towards an exocentric LFG account of Hungarian finite sentences
    • 2.3.1 Against the IP approach
      • 2.3.1.1 On Hungarian auxiliaries
      • 2.3.1.2 On the functional category I in English and Russian in GB and LFG
      • 2.3.1.3 On the treatment of auxiliaries in an LFG syntax of Hungarian
      • 2.3.1.4 Interim conclusions
    • 2.3.2 An S analysis in an LFG framework
      • 2.3.2.1 The fundamental aspects of the analysis
      • 2.3.2.2 On c-structure positions and functional annotations
    • 2.3.3 Implementational issues
  • 2.4 Conclusion
    • 2.4.1 General remarks
    • 2.4.2 Implementational remarks
• Chapter 3. Verbal modifiers
  • 3.1 On particle-verb constructions
    • 3.1.1 GB and MP treatments of PVCs
    • 3.1.2 Lexicalist treatments of PVCs
      • 3.1.2.1 Lexicalist approaches to complex predicates
      • 3.1.2.2 Generative argument structure grammar on Hungarian vms
      • 3.1.2.3 Head-Driven phrase structure grammar on Hungarian vms
      • 3.1.2.4 Realisation-Based Lexicalism on Hungarian vms
    • 3.1.3 On some LFG(-compatible) views of PVCs
    • 3.1.4 Previous LFG-XLE treatments of Hungarian PVCs
      • 3.1.4.1 Forst et al. (2010) on PVCs in English, German and Hungarian
      • 3.1.4.2 A HunGram account of four Hungarian PVCs
    • 3.1.5 My alternative LFG-XLE analysis of PVCs
      • 3.1.5.1 A possible lexical treatment of PVCs in an XLE grammar
      • 3.1.5.2 On the choice between the syntactic and the lexical accounts
      • 3.1.5.3 Interim conclusion
  • 3.2 A general approach to verbal modifiers
    • 3.2.1 Major vm types
    • 3.2.2 Towards a comprehensive LFG analysis of vms
      • 3.2.2.1 Preverbs
      • 3.2.2.2 Reduced arguments
      • 3.2.2.3 Oblique arguments
      • 3.2.2.4 Small clause xcomps
      • 3.2.2.5 Idiom chunks
  • 3.3 Conclusion
    • 3.3.1 General remarks
    • 3.3.2 Implementational issues
• Chapter 4. Operators
  • 4.1 Mycock (2010) on Szendrői (2003), É. Kiss (2002) and Hunyadi (2002)
  • 4.2 Mycock’s (2010) analysis
  • 4.3 My alternative analysis
    • 4.3.1 Major aspects of my approach
    • 4.3.2 The FOC V type
    • 4.3.3 The NEG FOC V type
    • 4.3.4 The Q V type
    • 4.3.5 The ∀ VM V type
    • 4.3.6 The ∀ NEG V type
    • 4.3.7 The NEG ∀ V type
    • 4.3.8 The ∀ FOC V type
    • 4.3.9 The Q* + Q V type
    • 4.3.10 The Q NEG FOC V type
    • 4.3.11 The miért FOC V type
    • 4.3.12 The FOC Q V type
    • 4.3.13 Summary of my analysis
  • 4.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Negation from an XLE perspective
  • 5.1 Types of negation
    • 5.1.1 The basic facts
    • 5.1.2 On functional categories and NegP: LFG-theoretic considerations
    • 5.1.3 On Payne & Chisarik (2000)
    • 5.1.4 Towards an LFG-XLE analysis of negation
      • 5.1.4.1 Ordinary constituent negation
      • 5.1.4.2 UQ negation without focus
      • 5.1.4.3 UQ negation with focus
      • 5.1.4.4 Predicate negation with focus, the nmr precedes the focus
      • 5.1.4.5 Predicate negation with focus, the nmr precedes the verb
      • 5.1.4.6 Predicate negation without focus, the nmr precedes the verb
  • 5.2 Negative markers and licensing negative concord items
    • 5.2.1 On nem, sem and negative concord items
      • 5.2.1.1 Some basic facts
      • 5.2.1.2 On some GB and MP approaches
      • 5.2.1.3 XLE-style empirical generalisations
    • 5.2.2 An XLE analysis
  • 5.3 Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Copula constructions and functional structure
  • 6.1 On English CCs and aspects of their GB/MP analyses
  • 6.2 Hegedűs (2013) on Hungarian CCs
  • 6.3 Towards developing an LFG analysis of Hungarian CCs
    • 6.3.1 Fundamental LFG approaches
    • 6.3.2 Analysis of the five Hungarian CC types
      • 6.3.2.1 Attribution or classification
      • 6.3.2.2 Identity
      • 6.3.2.3 Location
      • 6.3.2.4 Existence
      • 6.3.2.5 Possession
  • 6.4 onclusion
• Chapter 7. Conclusion: Results and outlook
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Chapter 2: The basic structure of Hungarian finite clauses
  • 7.3 Chapter 3: Verbal modifiers
  • 7.4 Chapter 4: Operators
  • 7.5 Chapter 5: Negation
  • 7.6 Chapter 6: Copula constructions and functional structure
  • 7.7 Some general final remarks
• References
• Author index
• Subject index