LFG and Finno-Ugric languages ...
The chapter discusses some salient, sometimes competing, LFG analyses of a variety of (morpho-)syntactic phenomena in Finno-Ugric languages, with occasional glimpses at alternative generative approaches and at some related phenomena in languages belonging to Samoyedic, the other major branch of Ural...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Language Science Press
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10186011 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10186011 |
| Summary: | The chapter discusses some salient, sometimes competing, LFG analyses of a variety of (morpho-)syntactic phenomena in Finno-Ugric languages, with occasional glimpses at alternative generative approaches and at some related phenomena in languages belonging to Samoyedic, the other major branch of Uralic languages. We concentrate on clausal c-structure representational issues, verbal modifiers, focused constituents, negation, copula constructions, argument realization, subject-verb agreement, differential object marking, evidentiality and a set of noun phrase phenomena related to event nominalization. It argues that LFG provides an appropriate and suitably flexible formal apparatus for a principled analysis of all the phenomena in all the Finno-Ugric languages discussed here. In addition, it shows that the analysis of some of these phenomena can also contribute to LFG-internal theorizing. ... |
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