Scoping and Recursive Modification in TL-LFG

Type-Logical Lexical Functional Grammar (TL-LFG) combines the extreme lexicalism and tight relationship between syntactic and semantic construction of Type-Logical Categorial Grammar with the virtues of having functional structure at the core of syntactic analyses. This paper presents fragments of an analysis of modification in TL-LFG. Particular attention is given to the scope and ordering of non-intersective modifiers and to recursive modification. These analyses highlight the synergy between the underlying logic, the word spans and the functional structure features of the derivational component of the framework. The later suffices to give an elegant analysis of semantic modification phenomena using a fraction of the formal machinery of the LFG + Glue framework.