Architectures, Rules, and Preferences

Architectures, Rules, and Preferencesreflects the interests and honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan's two decades of foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive volume includes contributions by leading linguists on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. Featuring an impressive range of empirical and theoretical research, this collection covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.Zaenen, Annie is the author of 'Architectures, Rules, and Preferences', published 2007 under ISBN 9781575865607 and ISBN 1575865602.