Introductions to LFG

• Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen `Lexical-Functional Grammar' in Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. pp 425--458, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009.
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• Bresnan, Joan. 2001. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
• Dalrymple, Mary. 2001. Lexical Functional Grammar. New York: Academic Press.
• Falk, Yehuda. 2001. Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax. CSLI Publications.
• Kroeger, Paul R. 2004. Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kuiper, Koenraad and Jacqui Nokes. 2013. `Chapter 6: Lexical Functional Grammar'. In Theories of Syntax: Concepts and Case Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lĝdrup, Helge. 2011. `Lexical-Functional Grammar: Functional Structure'. In Robert Borsley and Kersti Börjars. Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Nordlinger, Rachel and Joan Bresnan. 2011. `Lexical-Functional Grammar: Interactions between Morphology and Syntax'. In Robert Borsley and Kersti Börjars. Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Abeille, Anne. 1993. Les nouvelles syntaxes: Grammaires d'unification et analyse du Francais. Chapter 1. Paris: Armand Colin. [In French].
• Ackerman, Farrell. 1995. 'Lexical Functional Grammar'. Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Austin, Peter. 2001. 'Lexical Functional Grammar'. In N.J. Smelser and P. Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, 8748-8754. Oxford: Elsevier.
• Carnie, Andrew. 2002. Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Chapter 13: Lexical-Functional Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell. [On-line version from first edition].
• Dalrymple, Mary. 2006. 'Lexical Functional Grammar'. In Keith Brown (eds), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (2nd edition). Oxford: Elsevier. Available as a PDF file. (If you have trouble with this link, try this one).
• Dalrymple, Mary. 1999. 'Lexical-Functional Grammar'. In Rob Wilson and Frank Keil (eds), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. The MIT Press.
• Horrocks, G. Generative Grammar. Longman, London, 1987.
• Huang, Chu-Ren. 1989. Cihui Gongneng Yufa JianJie. [A Short Introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar.] In Chu-Ren Huang and Keh-jiann Chen (eds), Proceedings of ROCLING II. pp.73-94. [In Chinese.]
• Kaplan, Ronald M. 1989. 'The formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar'. In Chu-Ren Huang and Keh-Jiann Chen, editors, Proceedings of ROCLING II, pages 1-18. Also in Journal of Information Science and Engineering, vol. 5 no. 4, pp. 305-322. Reprinted in Dalrymple, Kaplan, Maxwell, and Zaenen (eds), Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, 7-27. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 1995. Available from the LFG Archive.
• Matsumoto, Yo. 1993. 'Goi-kinoo bunpoo' [Lexical Functional Grammar]. In Heinz Morioka and Masaru Kajita, editors, Kaigai gengogaku Joohoo [Current Trends in Overseas Linguistics], volume 7. Taishukan, Tokyo, pages 36-48. [In Japanese.]
• Neidle, Carol. 1994. 'Lexical-Functional Grammar'. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. New York: Pergamon Press. Available from the LFG Archive.
• Sadler, Louisa. 1996. 'New developments in LFG'. In Keith Brown and Jim Miller, editors, Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories. Elsevier Science, Oxford. Available from the LFG Archive.
• Sells, Peter. 1985. Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories. Chapter 4: Lexical-Functional Grammar. Number 3 in CSLI Lecture Notes, CSLI/University of Chicago Press.
• Schwarze, Christoph. 1996. Lexikalisch-funktionale Grammatik. Eine Einfuehrung in 10 Lektionen, mit franzoesischen Beispielen. Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft der Universitaet Konstanz, Arbeitspapier Nr. 76. [In German.]
• Wescoat, Michael. 1989. 'Practical Instructions for Working with the Formalism of Lexical Functional Grammar'. MS, Xerox PARC. Available from the LFG Archive. .
• Wescoat, Michael and Annie Zaenen. 1991. 'Lexical Functional Grammar'. In Flip G. Droste and John E. Joseph, editors, Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description. Benjamins, Amsterdam, pages 103-136. Volume 75 of Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

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