LFG teaching and presentation materials
This page contains links to LFG-related slides, handouts, and teaching
materials. Additional LFG-related teaching or presentation materials
for this archive are welcomed; please contact Mary Dalrymple
to have your material added to the web page.
Problem sets and teaching material:
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The late Yehuda Falk maintained
a web
page for his 2001 textbook Lexical-Functional Grammar: An
Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax
(CSLI
Publications).
His Courses
web page contains additional material related to LFG teaching.
Yehuda died in 2012, but the links to his page are still working. There is also a copy of
his page (including the Course material)
here
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Problems in morphosyntax, by
Aaron Broadwell, are suitable for use in an undergraduate syntax
course.
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Ida
Toivonen's Teaching
web pages include syntax exercises and a list of diagnostics for the
argument/adjunct distinction.
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Miriam Butt's Teaching
Materials web page contains links to course material, slides, and
handouts for LFG and other topics. Some of the material is in German.
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Louisa Sadler's web
page contains links to course materials for LFG.
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Steve
Wechsler's Course
Websites includes courses in LFG as well as English grammar, word
meaning, and semantics.
- Christian Fortmann has provided lecture notes (in German) here which give an introduction to the formalism of
LFG, and example analyses of prominent phenomena of the clausal syntax of German. They
are based on syntax courses he gave at the IMS in Stuttgart and elsewhere (e.g Konstanz,
Freiburg and Zurich).
Special events:
Course material from Mary
Dalrymple's two-day course Semantics, information structure, and
prosody in LFG, Oslo, February 2012.
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Course material from Mary Dalrymple,
John Lowe, and Louise Mycock's course Prosody, focus, and the
syntax-prosody-semantics interface in LFG, Konstanz,
November-December 2012.
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Course material from Mary Dalrymple's
presentation on LFG at the York Frameworks meeting, York, May
2010.
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Slides and course material from
Mary Dalrymple's course at the 2007 LSA Linguistic Institute,
Stanford.
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Slides and
teaching material from the 2004 Winter School in LFG and
Computational Linguistics, Christchurch, New Zealand. Included are
links to material for the following courses: Introduction to Lexical
Functional Grammar (Kersti Börjars, Nigel Vincent and Ash
Asudeh); Computational linguistics lab class (Ash Asudeh and Mary
Dalrymple); Issues in Computational Linguistics (Richard Crouch and
Tracy Holloway King); Advanced topic in LFG: Agreement (Mary Dalrymple
and Louisa Sadler).
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Slides from Mary Dalrymple's course on LFG
and the syntax-semantics interface at the 1999 Fall School
in Syntax and Semantics, Trondheim.
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Slides from Ron Kaplan and Mary Dalrymple's course
at the 1995 European Summer School in Logic, Language, and
Information, Barcelona.
Conferences:
Papers and other material from LFG conferences are available from CSLI
Online Publications. Below is some otherwise unpublished
additional material from early LFG conferences.
Last update: Wed Sep 16, 2015