Lexical functional grammar ( Kaplan and Bresnan 1982 ; Bresnan 2001 ; Dalrymple 2001 ) is a member of the family of constraint-based grammars .
lexical functional grammar volume 34 of syntax and semantics
Mary Dalrymple
Lexical functional grammar ( Kaplan and Bresnan 1982 ; Bresnan 2001 ; Dalrymple 2001 ) is a member of the family of constraint-based grammars . It posits minimally two levels of syntactic representation :2 c ( onstituent ) - structure encodes details of surface syntactic constituency , whereas f ( unctional ) - structure expresses abstract syntactic information about predicate -- argument -- modifier relations and certain morphosyntactic properties such as tense , aspect , and case .
Lexical functional grammar ( Kaplan and Bresnan 1982 ; Bresnan 2001 ; @@CITATION ) is a member of the family of constraint-based grammars .