Teaching Materials
Here you'll find teaching materials from some of my courses. Feel free to use or adapt them for your own classes, and contact me with any questions.
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Course 1:
Modelling Syntax: Introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar
Syllabus: click here
This course was first taught at the Summer School of The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies in July 2025.
Topic overview:
(1) Introduction
(2) F-structure and Grammatical Functions
(3) C-structure and C-to-F-structure Mapping
(4) Control Theory
(5) Long-Distance Dependencies
(6) Computational Implementation: Treebanks and Grammar Engineering
LFG 1_CFLam_Google.pdfLesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 1: Introduction
This lesson introduces the preliminaries of LFG, setting the background for the next 5 lessons.
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LFG2_CFLam_Google.pdfLesson 2: F-structure and Grammatical Functions
Lesson 2: F-structure and Grammatical Functions
This lesson focuses on the functional structure (f-structure) and the different grammatical functions in LFG from a cross-linguistic perspective.
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LFG3_CFLamLawrence_Google.pdfLesson 3: C-structure and C-to-F-structure Mapping
Lesson 3: C-structure and C-to-F-structure Mapping
This lesson focuses on the constituent structure (c-structure) as well as the mapping between c- and f-structures using cross-linguistic data from English and Latin.
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LFG4_CFLamLawrence_Google.pdfLesson 4: Control Theory
Lesson 4: Control Theory
This lesson focuses on control theory. Two important control mechanisms, namely functional and anaphoric control, are discussed with reference to data from English and Icelandic.
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LFG5_CFLamLawrence_Google.pdfLesson 5: Long-distance Dependencies
Lesson 5: Long-distance Dependencies
This lesson focuses on long-distance dependencies, particularly constituent questions, with reference to data from English, Japanese, and Hungarian.
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LFG6_CFLamLawrence_Google.pdfLesson 6: Computational Implementation: Treebanks and Grammar Engineering
Lesson 6: Computational Implementation: Treebanks and Grammar Engineering
This lesson focuses on the computational implementation of LFG analysis, introducing the applications of computational grammars, treebanks, and techniques of grammar engineering using Xerox Linguistic Environment.Â
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