Cooperating constructions in Lai "lexical insertion"

Authors

  • Andreas Kathol University of California Berkeley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2003.12

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the factors conditioning a morphological alternation on verbal heads in Lai. We show that this alternation eludes a simple characterization and instead exhibits a many-to-many form-function mapping. We will further show that the facts can be given a straightforward analysis in terms of default conditions based on valence and polarity, together with various constructional overrides. Our analysis thus follows recent proposals in HPSG, in particular Malouf (forthcoming), in using a constructional type hierarchy with defaults (cooperating constructions) as an alternative to an Optimality Theoretic system of ranked violable constraints.

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Published

2003-10-01

How to Cite

Kathol, Andreas. 2003. Cooperating constructions in Lai "lexical insertion". Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 203–221. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2003.12) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/566) (Accessed October 6, 2024.)