Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

Mary Dalrymple (ed)

Synopsis

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Chapters

  • PART I: OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction to LFG
    Oleg Belyaev
    Chapter 1
  • Core concepts of LFG
    Oleg Belyaev
    Chapter 2
  • Grammatical functions in LFG
    Oleg Belyaev
    Chapter 3
  • PART II: GRAMMATICAL PHENOMENA
  • Anaphora
    György Rákosi
    Chapter 4
  • Agreement
    Dag Haug
    Chapter 5
  • Case
    Miriam Butt
    Chapter 6
  • Complex predicates
    Avery D. Andrews
    Chapter 7
  • Coordination
    Agnieszka Patejuk
    Chapter 8
  • Clause structure and configurationality
    Avery D. Andrews
    Chapter 9
  • Unbounded dependencies
    Ronald M. Kaplan
    Chapter 10
  • Negation
    Oliver Bond
    Chapter 11
  • Noun phrases in LFG
    Kersti Börjars, John J. Lowe
    Chapter 12
  • Pronoun incorporation
    Ida Toivonen
    Chapter 13
  • Raising and control
    Nigel Vincent
    Chapter 14
  • PART III: GRAMMATICAL MODULES AND INTERFACES
  • Glue Semantics
    Ash Asudeh
    Chapter 15
  • Argument structure and mapping theory
    Jamie Y. Findlay, Roxanne Taylor, Anna Kibort
    Chapter 16
  • Prosody and its interfaces
    Tina Bögel
    Chapter 17
  • Information structure
    Annie Zaenen
    Chapter 18
  • Morphology in LFG
    Ash Asudeh, Daniel Siddiqi
    Chapter 19
  • PART IV: LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES
  • LFG and historical linguistics
    Hannah Booth, Miriam Butt
    Chapter 20
  • LFG, Optimality Theory and learnability of languages
    Jonas Kuhn
    Chapter 21
  • PART V: FORMAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS
  • Formal and computational properties of LFG
    Ronald M. Kaplan, Jürgen Wedekind
    Chapter 22
  • Computational implementations and applications
    Martin Forst, Tracy Holloway King
    Chapter 23
  • Treebank-driven parsing, translation and grammar induction using LFG
    Aoife Cahill, Andy Way
    Chapter 24
  • LFG treebanks
    Victoria Rosén
    Chapter 25
  • PART VI: LANGUAGE FAMILIES AND REGIONS
  • LFG and African languages
    Adams Bodomo, Dewei Che
    Chapter 26
  • LFG and Australian languages
    Rachel Nordlinger
    Chapter 27
  • LFG and Austronesian languages
    I Wayan Arka, Li-Chen Yeh
    Chapter 28
  • LFG and Celtic languages
    Jenny Graver
    Chapter 29
  • LFG and Continental West Germanic languages
    Gerlof Bouma
    Chapter 30
  • LFG and Finno-Ugric languages
    Tibor Laczkó
    Chapter 31
  • LFG and Romance languages
    Alex Alsina
    Chapter 32
  • LFG and Scandinavian languages
    Helge Lødrup
    Chapter 33
  • LFG and Semitic languages
    Louisa Sadler
    Chapter 34
  • LFG and Sinitic languages
    Olivia S-C. Lam, One-Soon Her, Jing Chen, Sophia Y.-M. Lee
    Chapter 35
  • LFG and Slavic languages
    Bozhil Hristov
    Chapter 36
  • PART VII: COMPARING LFG WITH OTHER LINGUISTIC THEORIES
  • LFG and Cognitive and Constructional Theories
    Yo Matsumoto
    Chapter 37
  • LFG and Dependency Grammar
    Dag Haug
    Chapter 38
  • LFG and HPSG
    Adam Przepiórkowski
    Chapter 39
  • LFG and Minimalism
    Peter Sells
    Chapter 40
  • LFG and Role and Reference Grammar
    Delia Bentley, Nigel Vincent
    Chapter 41
  • LFG and Simpler Syntax
    Giuseppe Varaschin
    Chapter 42
  • LFG and Tree Adjoining Grammar
    Jamie Y. Findlay
    Chapter 43
  • Glossary
    Mary Dalrymple
    Glossary

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Author Biography

Mary Dalrymple

Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD from the Department of Linguistics, Stanford University. Before moving to Oxford she was Computer Scientist at SRI International, Menlo Park, California; Member of the Research Staff, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California; and Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. Her work explores issues in syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface, often within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar. She is also involved in language documentation, with a particular focus on Austronesian and Papuan languages. She has authored or coauthored five books, most recently the Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar, with John J. Lowe and Louise Mycock. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea.

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Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax

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Dalrymple, Mary (ed.). 2023. Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar. (Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax 13). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10037797
Copyright (c) 2021 Mary Dalrymple; Ronald M. Kaplan, Oleg Belyaev, György Rákosi, Dag Haug, Miriam Butt, Avery D. Andrews, Agnieszka Patejuk, Adam Przepiórkowski, Helge Dyvik, Annie Zaenen, Oliver Bond, Kersti Börjars, John J. Lowe, Ida Toivonen, Nigel Vincent, Ash Asudeh, Jamie Y. Findlay, Anna Kibort, Tina Bögel, Paul B. Melchin, Daniel Siddiqi, Hannah Booth, Jonas Kuhn, Stephen Jones, Bruno di Biase, Marco Magnani, Jürgen Wedekind, Martin Forst, Tracy Holloway King, Aoife Cahill, Andy Way, Victoria Rosén, Adams Bodomo, Dewei Che, Amy Dahlstrom, Rachel Nordlinger, I Wayan Arka, Eleanor Ridge, Jenny Graver, Gerlof Bouma, Tibor Laczkó, John Payne, Ryo Otoguro, Alex Alsina, Helge Lødrup, Louisa Sadler, Olivia S-C. Lam, One-Soon Her, Bozhil Hristov, Yo Matsumoto, Peter Sells, Delia Bentley, Giuseppe Varaschin

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