Optimality-Theoretic Lexical Mapping Theory: A Case Study of Locative Inversion

One-Soon Her
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One-Soon Her: National Chengchi University, Taiwan

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 2006, vol. 2, issue 1, 67-94

Abstract: Locative inversion verbs seem to share the same argument structure and grammatical function assignment (i.e., ) cross-linguistically. This article discusses the nature of argument-function linking in LFG and demonstrates how the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT) rendered in Optimality-Theoretic (OT) terms, where argument-function linking is governed by universal violable constraints that consistently favor the unmarked function, accounts for locative inversion straightforwardly. Within this OT-LMT, locative inversion is due to a universal morphosyntactic constraint, and language variation in locative inversion is due to the difference in its relative ranking. This account also offers a potential explanation for the markedness of the locative inversion construction.

Date: 2006
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