Books in the Studies in Constraint-based Lexicalism series

Documents the singular ability of lexicalist theories of grammar.

The first collection of papers on Slavic language within a formal non-transformational linguistic formalism.

This book presents a novel analysis of mixed category constructions in various languages.

This collection surveys recent work in HPSG and Categorial Grammar.

For a verb referring to a type of action, what principles determine which participant is to be referred to by its subject, and so forth? Approaches have used thematic roles to classify kinds of participants. This alternative relies on certain basic features of verb meaning, such as causation.

This text collects together work in OT-LFG (Optimality Theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar) which develops empirical coverage of the approach as well as the formal foundations of the OT approach. The papers deal with phenomena in a wide range of languages including English, Hindi and Korean.

A collection of papers which involve a new approach to syntax bringing together Optimality Theory and Lexical-Functional Grammar.