Abstract
Multiword expressions (MWEs) pose a problem for lexicalist theories like Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), since they are prima facie counterexamples to a strong form of the lexical integrity principle, which entails that a lexical item can only be realised as a single, syntactically atomic word. In this paper, I demonstrate some of the problems facing any strongly lexicalist account of MWEs, and argue that the lexical integrity principle must be weakened. I conclude by sketching a formalism which integrates a Tree Adjoining Grammar into the LFG architecture, taking advantage of this relaxation.- Anthology ID:
- W17-1709
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017)
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Valencia, Spain
- Editors:
- Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze
- Venue:
- MWE
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 73–79
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-1709
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-1709
- Cite (ACL):
- Jamie Y. Findlay. 2017. Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from LFG. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2017), pages 73–79, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from LFG (Findlay, MWE 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W17-1709.pdf