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This chapter extends the analysis for a class of adjectival agreeing adverbs (AdjAdv) found in Urdu, Sindhi, and Punjabi. It focuses on Urdu, providing new data on the distribution of AdjAdv and formalizing the Urdu agreement facts in LFG within the broader context of Urdu verbal and adjectival agreement patterns. The AdjAdvs are APs at c-structure and clausal adjuncts at f-structure. The Urdu AdjAdv agreement patterns follow those of verbal agreement rather than adjectival agreement and are additionally sensitive to lexical semantics, providing further evidence of the role of lexical semantics in Urdu morphosyntax. The new formal analysis combines several attributes of the LFG architecture including the morphology–-lexicon interface, the use of templates to capture generalizations, and the interaction of lexical semantics and syntax. It also highlights the importance of analyszing phenomena within their broader context in order to capture linguistic generalizations: The act of formalization gave rise to a number of data questions which in turn led to modification of the original generalizations. |
