Features as Resources in R-LFG

Abstract

This paper introduces a non-unification-based version of LFG called R-LFG (Resource-based Lexical Functional Grammar), which combines elements from both LFG and Linear Logic. The paper argues that a resource sensitive account provides a simpler treatment of many linguistic uses of non-monotonic devices in LFG, such as existential constraints and constraint equations.

21 pages; appears in Proceedings of LFG-97; uses epic.sty, eepic.sty, ipa.sty