Modular Design of Grammar

I Wayan Arka is Professor in Linguistics at The Australian National University and Universitas Udayana. His research interests include descriptive, theoretical, and typological linguistics, with areal focus on the Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia. His research examines the interfaces of morphology, syntax, and semantics/pragmatics framed in a larger socio-cultural context. His current projects include the Enggano Project and the ethnobiological-linguistic documentation of Marori. He has carried out extensive linguistic fieldwork and organized capacity building/advocacy programs for minority language communities in Indonesia.Ash Asudeh is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Director of the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester. He has previously held positions at the University of Oxford and Carleton University, with which he remains affiliated. His research interests include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language and logic/computation, and cognitive science. His publications include The Logic of Pronominal Resumption (OUP, 2012), Lexical-Functional Syntax (with Joan Bresnan, Ida Toivonen, and Stephen Wechsler; Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), and Enriched Meanings (with Gianluca Giorgolo; OUP, 2020).Tracy Holloway King is a principal scientist at Adobe, focusing on search and natural language processing. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, where her dissertation was on how word order encodes discourse functions in Russian. She began her career in Xerox PARC's Natural Language Theory and Technology group, focusing on the implementation of broad coverage grammars in Lexical Functional Grammar. She then shifted her focus to search relevance and short text processing working at Microsoft Bing, eBay's Search Science team, Amazon's product search team, and now Adobe.

• 1: Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan: IntroductionPart I: Architecture and ontology2: Avery Andrews: A speculation about what linguistic structures might be3: Ash Asudeh: The unrealized and the unheardPart II: Constructions and agreement in a modular architecture4: Bozhil Hristov: An LFG analysis of AANN constructions: 'A staggering ten doctoral dissertations'5: Louisa Sadler: On the construct state in Arabic6: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King: Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials7: Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger: An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructionsPart III: Argument structure and grammatical functions8: Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl: Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction9: Helge Lødrup: Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects10: Ida Toivonen: Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English11: Charlotte Hemmings: Subjects in Austronesian: Evidence from Kelabit12: I Wayan Arka: Pivot and puzzling relativization in IndonesianPart IV: Categories: Synchrony and diachrony13: Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk: Coordinate structures without syntactic categories14: Kersti Börjars and John Payne: Decategorialization and Chinese nouns15: Nigel Vincent: The 'of' wordPart V: Representations beyond syntax16: Oleg Belyaev: Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour: Ossetic case inflection17: Louise Mycock, Chenzi Xu, and Aditi Lahiri: 'Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: An LFG analysis18: Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli: Collectivist semantics19: Andrew Kehler: Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis20: Jamie Y. Findlay: Meaning in LFG