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The syntactical construction of questions and some relative clauses creates what linguists call unbounded dependencies. In a sentence like What book are you reading?, the phrase what book occupies a special fronted position in the sentence, but is at the same time the object of the verb reading and would otherwise be expected to appear immediately following the verb. The relation between the fronted phrase and its grammatical function can cross an unlimited number of clause boundaries, hence the term unbounded dependency. Taking a variety of approaches, this collection offers the first volume exclusively devoted to the treatment of unbounded dependencies within the framework of lexical functional grammar.

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Alex Alsina is head of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He is the author of The Role of Argument Structure in Grammar: Evidence from Romance, also published by CSLI Publications. Ash Asudeh is an associate professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University, Canada, as well as a university lecturer in semantics and pragmatics and the Hugh Price Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Logic of Pronominal Resumption.

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Alex Alsina is head of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He is the author of The Role of Argument Structure in Grammar: Evidence from Romance, also published by CSLI Publications. Ash Asudeh is an associate professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University, Canada, as well as a university lecturer in semantics and pragmatics and the Hugh Price Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Logic of Pronominal Resumption.

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