Lexical-Functional Grammar
- Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT)
- Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS TCL)
- King’s College London
- University of Bergen
- Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
- University of Essex
- International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association (ILFGA)
Lexical-Functional Grammar is a lexicalist, nontransformational theory of grammar which is built on a powerful and mathematically well-defined grammar formalism, designed for typologically diverse, configurational and non-configurational languages. LFG models different levels of linguistic description in a functional correspondence architecture. C-structure encodes constituency and surface order, which radically differ across typologically distinct languages. F-structure encodes functional syntactic information, which is largely shared between typologically distinct languages. LFG grammars are declarative, and therefore reversible for generation.
LFG