The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar

Mary Dalrymple is Professor of Syntax in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. Her work explores issues in syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface. Her many publications include Lexical Functional Grammar (Academic Press, 2001), and, with Irina Nikolaeva, Objects and Information Structure (CUP, 2011).

John J. Lowe is a Departmental Lecturer in Syntax and in Indo-Iranian Philology in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. He has worked widely in the areas of formal syntax and the syntax of Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian languages. He is the author of two OUP monographs, Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit (2015) and Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan (2017).

Louise Mycock is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. Her principal research interests are in syntax and syntactic theory, information structure, typology, and linguistic interfaces and interface phenomena, and her work has appeared in journals including English Language and Linguistics and Transactions of the Philological Society.

1. Background and theoretical assumptions
Part I: Syntax
2. Functional structure
3. Constituent structure
4. Syntactic correspondences
5. Describing syntactic structures
6. Syntactic relations and syntactic constraints
Part II: Beyond Syntactic Structures
7. Beyond C-structure and F-structure: Linguistic representations and relations
8. Meaning and semantic composition
9. Argument structure and mapping theory
10. Information structure
11. Prosodic structure
12. The interface to morphology
Part III: Phenomena
13. Modification
14. Anaphora
15. Functional and anaphoric control
16. Coordination
17. Long-distance dependencies
18. Related research threads and new directions
References