Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:11 am
Fancy title, isn't it?
In any case, Miekko has volunteered to help me out with this. We've pretty much agreed to approach it on a topic-by-topic basis, analyzing phenomena from different angles where possible. The focus, though, is going to be LFG, since that's what Miekko and I both are most proficient with.
If anyone would like to help out and offer different perspectives, that would be appreciated; particularly things that are significantly different from these approaches.
Lastly, if you feel like buying an LFG book, here are some suggestions:
Intro -- Kroeger's Analyzing Syntax
Real LFG -- Bresnan's Lexical-Fuctional Syntax.
Bresnan was one of the founders of LFG, by the way; she knows what she's doing.
I'll be using the approach of the first book, but much of the material of the second book (which is more formal and advanced, and has better examples) in explaining all this.
In any case, Miekko has volunteered to help me out with this. We've pretty much agreed to approach it on a topic-by-topic basis, analyzing phenomena from different angles where possible. The focus, though, is going to be LFG, since that's what Miekko and I both are most proficient with.
If anyone would like to help out and offer different perspectives, that would be appreciated; particularly things that are significantly different from these approaches.
Lastly, if you feel like buying an LFG book, here are some suggestions:
Intro -- Kroeger's Analyzing Syntax
Real LFG -- Bresnan's Lexical-Fuctional Syntax.
Bresnan was one of the founders of LFG, by the way; she knows what she's doing.
I'll be using the approach of the first book, but much of the material of the second book (which is more formal and advanced, and has better examples) in explaining all this.