Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure within

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    Author
    NORDLINGER, R; Sadler
    Date
    2007
    Source Title
    Architecture, Rules and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan Bresnan
    Publisher
    CSLI Publications
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Nordlinger, Rachel
    Affiliation
    Languages And Linguistics
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    NORDLINGER, R. & Sadler (2007). Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure within. Zaenen (Ed.). Simpson (Ed.). King, H (Ed.). Grimshaw (Ed.). Maling (Ed.). Manning (Ed.). Architecture, Rules and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan Bresnan, (1), pp.139-160. CSLI Publications.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/25465
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    Abstract
    Although very frequent in their occurence across the world's languages, verbless constructions have received relatively little attention in the LFG literature (notable exceptions being Rosén (1996) and a brief discussion in Falk (2004)). In this paper we seek to redress this gap by providing a detailed analysis of verbless constructions in LFG. In particular, we show that the flexibility of the architecture of LFG allows for two possible analyses of these clause types, which we term the 'single-tier' and 'double-tier' analyses. Examination of the morphosyntactic properties of verbless clauses cross-linguistically provide support for these two different models of verbless constructions.
    Keywords
    Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar; Phonology; Lexicon; Semantics) ; Languages and Literature

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