The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar

By: Mary Dalrymple, John J. Lowe, Louise Mycock

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Hardcover | 10 July 2019

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856 Pages

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This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of the analysis of syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the syntactic theory and formal architecture of LFG, with detailed explanations and comprehensive illustration, providing an unparalleled introduction to the fundamentals of the theory. Part two explores non-syntactic levels of linguistic structure, including the syntax-semantics interface and semantic representation, argument structure, information structure, prosodic structure, and morphological structure, and how these are related in the projection architecture of LFG. Chapters in the third part illustrate the theory more explicitly by presenting explorations of the syntax and semantics of a range of representative linguistic phenomena: modification, anaphora, control, coordination, and long-distance dependencies. The final chapter discusses LFG-based work not covered elsewhere in the book, as well as new developments in the theory.

The volume will be an invaluable reference for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and researchers in a wide range of linguistic sub-fields, including syntax, morphology, semantics, information structure, and prosody, as well as those working in language documentation and description.

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Rich with crosslinguistic examples and detailed explanation, this book provides the most comprehensive survey of Lexical Functional Grammar ever produced. It could easily be used as an advanced textbook in the theory, but it will sit at my right hand as the go-to work whenever I need a detailed explanation of the foundations and intricacies of LFG. * Andrew Carnie, University of Arizona *

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