In this book Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King present seven essays thatsurvey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broadrange of la... » 

In this book Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King present seven essays thatsurvey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broadrange of languages. In these papers Butt King and other prominent linguistsexamine within the architecture of LexicalFunctional Grammar LFG the varietyof ways in which arguments of a predicate may be realized in the syntax. Wellsuited for this kind of examination LFG allows for the complex interaction ofarguments syntactic positions and grammatical functions.Case marking alternations and the overt realization of case marking withinsingle clauses including case stacking have continued to engage the attentionof linguists working with different syntactic theories. The phenomenon ofclause union or complex predication has led linguists to look at case markingand argument realization that goes beyond the domain of the single clause.Regardless of the complexity or simplicity of the predicational structure of aclause the papers included in this volume show how the relationship betweenarguments and their overt realization can be dealt with.These papers also treat multiple case marking in Australian languagespossessor alternation in Welsh directional complex predicates in AmericanIndian languages and causatives in Japanese. Furthermore they discussrepresentational issues that encompass underspecification and the encoding ofsemantic information needed to determine the correspondence of thematicarguments to their overt syntactic realization. «