Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax (Volume 126)

by Yehuda N. Falk

With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories and now wish to approach LFG. Falk examines LFG's relation to more conventional theories—like Government/Binding or the Minimalism Program—and, in many respects, establishes its superiority.

Genres: Linguistics, Textbooks

253 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[Ana-Marija · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a decent introductory book.
Quite accessible as it explains what most terms and devices used actually are.

I find it slightly impractical that there are no solutions to the exercises and you can't verify that your f-structures and trees look the way they should, which might be a problem for people with little or no linguistic background.

Also, the language is from time to time slightly tedious.

[Aaron Broadwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

User-friendly introduction to LFG. (Presupposes some prior knowledge of syntactic theory.)