Bresnan Lexical Functional Syntax

Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

by Joan Bresnan

Lexical-Functional Syntax is the definitive text for Lexical-Functional Grammar in the field of syntax. Complete with integrated pedagogy and problem sets to support the text, this book provides an accessible, empirically-motivated treatment of the mathematical architecture of LFG. It also covers the theoretical linguistic ideas that LFG can model, and discusses the wide range of cross-linguistic syntactic phenomena to which it has been applied.

Genres: Linguistics, Language

460 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2000

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bresnan does an admirable job of trying to explain the baroque, technical, and counter-intuitive foundations of LFG to readers. This book shouldn't even be approached by anyone who doesn't have prior background in syntax. For those with a modest background in theoretical syntax, this book will be a refreshing take on syntax that offers an alternative to the implausibility and unnecessary complexity of Government & Binding or other bogus Chomskyan paradigms.

[Brahim]

I thinbk that this book is good for my research