The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of the analysis of syntax, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG.

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.