Volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics is a thorough and accessible overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. The book motivates and describes the two syn
Lexical Functional Grammar
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- Publisher
- AP
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 489
- Series
- Syntax and Semantics 34
- Category
- Library
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