Introduction to LFG
Winter term 2002/03

Dr. Sabine Reinhard & M.A.Veit Reuer

Schedule:

Session
Date
Lecture
Lecture Slides
HomeWork
HW solution
1
October 15
General introduction to the class
 
 
 
2
October 22
Overview on grammar theories and grammar formalisms
LS02(pdf172k)
HW1(doc20k)
 
3
October 29
Introduction to LFG (c-structure, a-structure, f-structure & introduction to graph theory) I
LS03(pdf148k)
HW2(pdf46k)
Sol2(pdf67k)
4
November 05
Introduction to LFG (c-structure, a-structure, f-structure & introduction to graph theory) II
LS04(pdf132k)
HW3(pdf65k)
Sol3(pdf31k)
5
November 12
C-structures
LS05(pdf85k)
LS05add(pdf50k)
HW4(pdf68k)
 
6
November 19
A-structures
LS06(pdf102k)
HW5(pdf42k)
Sol5(pdf71k)
7
November 26
F-structures
LS07(pdf140k)
HW6(pdf82k)
 
8
December 03
C/F-structures & wrap-up
LS08(pdf139k)
LFG_Lec8Add
HW7(pdf93k)
 
9
December 10
Linguistic phenomena:
Control/Raising in German/English
LS09(pdf125k)
 
 
10
December 17
Linguistic phenomena: Long Distance
Dependencies
LS10(pdf105k)
HW8(pdf140k)
 
December 21 - January 05
X-Mas Holidays
 
 
 
11
January 07
Linguistic phenomena: Wharlpiri
 
 
 
12
January 14
Applications (various languages acc. to students' interests) II
 
HW9(pdf60k)
 
13
January 21
Applications (various languages acc. to students' interests) II
 
HW10(pdf64k)
 
14
January 28
Perspective (recent developments in LFG)
 
 
 
15
February 04
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Introductory literature:

Austin, Peter K. (2001). `Lexical Functional Grammar'. In: N.J. Smelser and P. Baltes (eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, 8748-8754. Elsevier
Available as a PDF file.

Bresnan, Joan (ed.) (1982). The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Bresnan, Joan (2001). Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Dalrymple, Mary (2001). Lexical Functional Grammar. New York: Academic Press. To appear.

Falk, Yehuda (2001). Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Kaplan, Ronald M. & Joan Bresnan (1982). "Lexical-Functional Grammar: A formal system for grammatical representation". In: Joan Bresnan (ed.) (1982). The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 173-281.


Further reading:

Shieber, Stuart M. (1986). An Introduction to Unification-Based Approaches to Grammar. Number 4 in CSLI Lecture Notes, CSLI/University of Chicago Press.

Sells, Peter (1985). Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories. Chapter 4: Lexical-Functional Grammar. Number 3 in CSLI Lecture Notes, CSLI/University of Chicago Press.

Eisele, Andreas & Jochen Doerre (1986). A Lexical-Functional Grammar System in Prolog. In COLING-86, pp. 551-553.

Pienemann, Manfred (1998). Language processing and second language development: processability theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Pinker, Steven (1989). Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.


The main LFG web sites:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/