@inproceedings{findlay-2017-multiword,
    title = "Multiword expressions and lexicalism: the view from {LFG}",
    author = "Findlay, Jamie Y.",
    editor = "Markantonatou, Stella  and
      Ramisch, Carlos  and
      Savary, Agata  and
      Vincze, Veronika",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions ({MWE} 2017)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/W17-1709/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1709",
    pages = "73--79",
    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."
}