LINGUIST 313

Lexical Functional Grammar


Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for LINGUIST 313.

Description

LFG is a psycho-linguistically based, lexically driven universal grammar in which semantic, syntactic and configurational relationships are analysed as related but partially independent levels of organisation. This makes LFG suited to analysis of languages of all types. LFG is also widely implemented in language synthesis, automatic parsing, SLA and creole studies. Understanding of word classes and constituency is assumed.

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Availability 2017

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Helen Charters

Reading/Texts

Readings will be made available through CECIL

Recommended Reading

Falk, Yehuda, Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax (Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2001) ISBN-10: 1575863405, ISBN-13: 978-1575863405

Points

LINGUIST 313: 15 points

Prerequisites

LINGUIST 200 or LINGUIST 203