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Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Christopher D. Manning  and
Ivan A. Sag
Christopher D. Manning
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, F12, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. E-mail: cmanning@mail.usyd.edu.au.
Ivan A. Sag
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: sag@csli. Stanford, edu
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This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have different representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing different prominence orderings between the valence lists and argument structure, while forms like passives and causatives have nested argument structure lists. While binding theory and related phenomena have traditionally been described in terms of surface grammatical relations or configurations, we demonstrate that binding theory is actually correctly described in terms of argument structure configurations. Such an approach generalizes nicely over accusative and ergative constructions, correctly predicts binding patterns with causative and passive verbs, and supports the lexicality-preserving account of passives and causatives advocated within HPSG.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 21 , Special Issue 2 , December 1998 , pp. 107 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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