Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation

Introduction Part I. Lexical Argument Structure: 1. Kinds of objecthood in Chamorro grammar 2. A composition approach to Modern Greek 'weak form' possessives 3. West Greenlandic noun incorporation in a monohierarchical theory of grammar 4. Dissociations between ARG-ST and grammatical relations Part II. Lexical and Syntactic Constructions: 5. A lexical approach to quantifier floating in French 6. German Pied-Piper infinitives 7. Inversion and constructional inheritance 8. German partial-VP topicalization revisited 9. English number names in HPSG Part III. Binding Theory: 10. Long-distance reflexives and the binding square of opposition 11. HPSG, GB, and the Balinese bind Part IV. Case and Agreement: 12. Peripheral constructions and core phenomena 13. Locus agreement in American sign language 14. On case assignment and 'adjuncts as complements' Part IV. Formal and Computational Issues: 15. The importance of being lazy 16. Inside-out constraints and description languages for HPSG 16. Strong generative capacity in HPSG 17. Off-line constraint propagation for efficient HPSG processing 17. Conjunctive semantics for semantically transparent adverbials 18. Antecedent contained ellipsis in HPSG 19. The scope-marking construction in German 20. Lexicalization of context Name index Subject index.