Causatives as complex predicates without the restriction operator
Petr Homola, Matt Coler · 2013
lsina’s (1996) concept of complex predicates has been, within LFG, applied to a number of phenomena and languages including, for example, Turkish causatives (Cetinoglu et al., 2008). These approaches are comparable insofar as they use the so-called restriction operator introduced by Kaplan and Wedekind (1993). The reason for the use of this ad-hoc workaround is the fact that standard LFG does not allow for modification of the PRED attribute in f-structures. The “restriction operator” solves this problem but it breaks the monotonicity1 of the LFG architecture which has been one of the biggest advantages of the formalism according to Bresnan (2001). We propose a solution to this problem that preserves the monotonicity of LFG using equational unification