The Australian National University

The paper shows how glue-semantics can be integrated into the LFG architecture as an (almost) normal projection, so that it can do the work of ‘argument-structure ’ in accounts of predicate-composition such as Alsina (1996, 1997), Butt et al. (1997) and Andrews and Man-ning (1999). A significant innovation is that that the standard ‘semantic projec-tion ’ is abandoned in favor of a σ-projection that directly connects the f-structure and the meaning-structure, similar to the original proposal for a semantic projection in Kaplan (1987), but running many-to-one from the semantic structure to the f-structure. In this paper, I will propose an analysis of clause-union complex predi-cates, such as Romance causatives, in which the glue proof plays the role of argument-structure in analyses such as those of Alsina (1996) and Andrews and Manning (1999), and functions like a normal level of structure in LFG