Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings tog...