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Papers by Avery Andrews

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

This paper presents a single level analysis of the f-structu e of Quirky Case NPs in Icelandic th... more This paper presents a single level analysis of the f-structu e of Quirky Case NPs in Icelandic that covers the data of the two-level an alysis presented by Andrews (1982, 1990), using the ‘split lexicon’ an d DBA Glue proposal of Andrews (2007, 2008) to deal with the phenomena t hat motivated the two-level analysis. The resulting analysis is s impler in some ways (although perhaps a bit more stipulative in others), an d more consistent with recent developments in LFG such as the Kibort-Find lay Mapping Theory.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition, Nov 24, 2017

Routledge eBooks, Nov 10, 2016

Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, 2020

There is a long-standing controversy as to whether it makes sense to try to define parts of speec... more There is a long-standing controversy as to whether it makes sense to try to define parts of speech cross-linguistically, and if so, how to do it. The generativist position, advocated by Chomsky (1970), Baker (2003), Chung (2012a, 2012b), Panagiotidis (2015) and many others, has almost always assumed that it does, focusing on noun (N), verb (V) and adjective (A), applying a combination of syntactic and semantic ideas and concepts. On the other hand, functionally oriented typologists such as Dryer (1997), Croft (2001) and Haspelmath (2010, 2012) seem to have largely come to the conclusion that it does not; while Wierzbicka (2010) argues that it can be done, using the grammatical treatment of certain Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) primes as universal exemplars. Here I will propose a different NSM-based approach, intended to be complementary to Wierzbicka’s, which uses NSM to define ‘semantic cores’, whose members are treated equivalently by certain kinds of grammatical phenomena, ...

BRILL eBooks, Dec 26, 1990

This coupling comprises a rotary cylindrical portion which is recessed and an outlet opening whos... more This coupling comprises a rotary cylindrical portion which is recessed and an outlet opening whose lower edge is placed level with the lowest point of a surface which is inclined relative to the rotation axis, whereby the said surface is placed adjacent to the axis and the side opposite to the said opening.

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 4, 2007

ANU Press eBooks, Dec 17, 2020

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2008

Language Science Press, May 3, 2021

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structure, first de... more Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan andRonald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described andmodeled by parallel structures representing different facets oflinguistic organization and information, related by means offunctional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I,Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntacticconcepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviewsLFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. PartIII, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFGwork on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure,and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work inthe disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability,psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal andcomputational issues and applications, provides an overview ofcomputational and formal properties of the theory, implementations,and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, andtreebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG workon languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particularlanguage families. The final section, Comparing LFG with otherlinguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to othertheoretical approaches

Lincom Europa eBooks, 2012

This paper uses basic category theory (the rudiments of CCCs) to show that the propositional vers... more This paper uses basic category theory (the rudiments of CCCs) to show that the propositional version of glue semantics provides an interface to semantics that is fully variable-free in the sense of Jacobson (1999). It also suggests that Chomsky's Merge mechanism is not truly different from glue semantics.

Journal of Language Modelling, 2018

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) uses abstract syntactic representation (f-structures) that tend ... more Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) uses abstract syntactic representation (f-structures) that tend to provide less hierarchical structure for certain constructions than those employed in other formal frameworks. This produces some good results, such as a very straightforward account of feature-sharing between phrases and their heads, but also certain difficulties, especially in cases where the semantic interpretation seems to be determined by the hierarchical c-structure rather than the flatter f-structure. These are unproblematic for all other major generative frameworks, but have been troublesome for standard versions of LFG.Here I will consider two such cases: scoping adjectival modification in noun phrases; and Romance `complex' (or `restructuring') predicates. Problems with the semantic interpretation of these constructions were first discussed by Andrews (1983) and Alsina (1997), respectively, and by others subsequently. Both constructions exhibit the problem of apparent...

Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2015

Proceedings of LFG2009, 2009

Indonesian is one of the most extensively studied Austronesian languages (Musgrave 2001, Chung 19... more Indonesian is one of the most extensively studied Austronesian languages (Musgrave 2001, Chung 1976, Myhill 1988, Purwo 1989, Sneddon 1996, Macdonald and Dardjowidjojo 2001, among others), and has rich valence-changing morphology. This research examines the applicative and causative usage of the suffix-i, and its complex interaction with voice selection, as seen in example (1b) where the verb exhibits the applicative–i with actor voice (AV) marking. In addition to examining the implementation ...

Modular Design of Grammar

Linguistics is heavily invested in the idea that linguistic utterances have ‘structures’, but the... more Linguistics is heavily invested in the idea that linguistic utterances have ‘structures’, but there seems to be relatively little insight into what these structures actually are. In this chapter, Andrews suggests that they can be regarded as ‘aspirational equivalence classes’ of computations whereby the utterances are produced or understood. ‘Aspirational’ refers to the fact that unlike the case of Proof Theory, where the idea of equivalence classes of proofs a.k.a. computations originated, in linguistics we do not know what the computations are, but can nevertheless motivate some ideas about how they are organized. A classic example from LFG is the proposal that constituent-structures are found by a different set of processes than those that find functional-structures; a suggested new example is a proposal that functional-structures for ‘words’ are computed prior to their integration into the functional-structure for the utterance. Andrews suggests that this might be an intermediat...