Lexical Functional Grammar cs词汇功能语法.cmu.pptVIP

Lexical Functional Grammar History: Joan Bresnan (linguist, MIT and Stanford) Ron Kaplan (computational psycholinguist, Xerox PARC) Around 1978 What is Linguistic Theory Delimit the range of possible human languages. What do all languages have in common? Semantic roles, grammatical relations, pragmatic relations, some constituent structure; only subjects can be controllees in matrix coding as subject constructions; etc. What are the ways in which they can differ from each other? Relative prominence of grammatical or pragmatic relations: word order reflects grammatical relations in English and