LFG's Top 25

[Mary Dalrymple]

Well, actually the top 33 -- it was hard to whittle it down.  Thanks
for the response!  I found this very interesting.  If your favorite
papers aren't in here, let me know -- I'm still willing and able to
continue collecting suggestions!

To remind you what this list is: I asked the members of the list to
send me your votes for the the top 25 LFG works that are not contained
in one of the following collections:

   Bresnan, Joan, editor.  1982.  The Mental Representation of
   Grammatical Relations.  The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
   
   Levin, Lori S., Malka Rappaport, and Annie Zaenen, editors.  1983.
   Papers in Lexical-Functional Grammar.  Indiana University Linguistics
   Club, Bloomington.
   
   Dalrymple, Mary, Ronald M. Kaplan, John T. Maxwell, and Annie Zaenen,
   editors.  1995.  Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar.  CSLI
   Publications, Stanford, CA.

I did get a couple of votes for papers in one or another of those
collections, but they don't appear below.  So, here we have it, the
LFG Top 33:


Ackerman, Farrell and Phil LeSourd.  1997.  Toward a lexical
representation of phrasal predicates.  In Alex Alsina, Joan Bresnan,
and Peter Sells, editors, Complex Predicates. CSLI Publications,
Stanford, CA.

Ackerman, Farrell.  1987.  Miscreant morphemes: phrasal predicates in
Ugric.  Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

Alsina, Alex and Sam A. Mchombo.  1990.  The syntax of applicatives
in Chichewa: Problems for a theta theoretic asymmetry.  Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory, 8(4):493--506.

Alsina, Alex.  1992.  On the argument structure of causatives.
Linguistic Inquiry, 23(4):517--555.

Alsina, Alex.  1994.  Predicate composition: A theory of syntactic
function alternations.  Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department
of Linguistics.

Andrews, Avery D. 1990. Unification and morphological blocking. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 8 (4) :507-557.

Andrews, Avery D. 1991. Syntax textbook. 

Andrews, Avery and Chris Manning.  1993.  Information spreading and
levels of representation in LFG.  Technical Report CSLI-93-176, CSLI,
Stanford University.

Andrews, Avery. 1990. Case structures and control in Modern Icelandic. In
Modern Icelandic syntax. Edited by J. Maling and A. Zaenen.  187-234.
Orlando, Florida: Academic Press.

Bresnan, Joan.  1978.  A realistic transformational grammar.  In
Morris Halle, Joan Bresnan, and George A. Miller, editors, Linguistic
theory and psychological reality. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pages
1--59.

Bresnan, Joan.  1993.  Interaction between grammar and discourse in
Chichewa (Bantu).  In William A. Foley, editor, The Role of Linguistic
Theory in Language Description. Mouton-de Gruyter, Berlin, pages
45--60.  Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 69.

Bresnan, Joan.  1994.  Locative inversion and the architecture of
universal grammar.  Language, 70(1):2--131.

Bresnan, Joan and Annie Zaenen. 1990. Deep unaccusativity in LFG. In
Grammatical relations: a cross-theoretical perspective. Edited by K.
Dziwirek, P. Farrell and E. M. Bikandi.  45-57. Stanford CA: CSLI
Publications/Stanford Linguistics Association.

Bresnan, Joan and Jonni Kanerva.  1989.  Locative inversion in
Chichewa: a case study of factorization in grammar.  Linguistic
Inquiry, 20(1):1--50.  Reprinted in Tim Stowell and Eric Wehrli
(eds.), Syntax and Semantics No. 26: Syntax and the Lexicon,
pp. 53--101. New York: Academic Press.

Bresnan, Joan and Lioba Moshi.  1990.  Object asymmetries in
comparative Bantu syntax.  Linguistic Inquiry, 21(2):147--185.
Reprinted in Sam A. Mchombo (ed.) Theoretical Aspects of Bantu Grammar
1, 47--91. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Bresnan, Joan and Sam A. Mchombo.  1987.  Topic, pronoun, and
agreement in Chichewa.  Language, 63(4):741--782.  Reprinted in Masayo
Iida, Steven Wechsler, and Draga Zec (eds.), Working Papers in
Grammatical Theory and Discourse Structure: Interactions of
Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse, pp. 1--59. Stanford: CSLI
Publications.

Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, and Gillian Ramchand. 1995. Theoretical
perspectives on word order in South Asian languages. CSLI Lecture Notes.
Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Butt, Miriam.  1993.  The structure of complex predicates in Urdu.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics.

Dahlstrom, Amy. 1991. Plains Cree Morphosyntax. Outstanding dissertations
in linguistics. New York: Garland. 

Dalrymple, Mary.  1993.  The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding.  CSLI
Publications, Stanford, CA.  CSLI Lecture Notes, number 36.

Grimshaw, Jane. 1979. Complement selection and the lexicon. Linguistic
Inquiry 10 (2) :279-326. 

Halvorsen, Per-Kristian. 1983. Semantics for lexical-functional grammar.
Linguistic Inquiry 14 (4) :567-615. 

Iida, Masayo, Stephen Wechsler, and Draga Zec, editors.  1987.
Working Papers in Grammatical Theory and Discourse Structure, Volume
1: Interactions of Morphology, Syntax, and Discourse.  CSLI
Publications, Stanford, CA.  CSLI Lecture Notes, number 11.

Kroeger, Paul.  1991.  Phrase structure and grammatical relations in
Tagalog.  Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University.

Levin, Lori. 1986. Operations on lexical forms: unaccusative rules in
Germanic languages. PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Manning, Christopher D. 1994. Ergativity: argument structure and
grammatical relations. PhD, Stanford University.

Mohanan, K.P. 1983. Functional and anaphoric control. Linguistic Inquiry
14 (4) :641-674. 

Mohanan, Tara. 1995. Argument structure in Hindi. Dissertations in
linguistics. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and
Information. 

Neidle, Carol. 1988. The role of case in Russian syntax. Studies in
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.  Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Pinker, Steven.  1984.  Language Learnability and Language
Development.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 

Simpson, Jane.  1991.  Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax: A Lexicalist
Approach.  D. Reidel, Dordrecht.

Zaenen, Annie, Joan Maling, and Hoskuldur Thrinsson. 1985. Case and
grammatical functions: the Icelandic passive. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory 3 (4) :441-483.

Zaenen, Annie.  1994.  Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating syntax and
lexical semantics.  In James Pustejovsky, editor, Semantics and the
Lexicon. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pages 129--161.