Books by Mary (Professor of Syntax Dalrymple

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of the analysis of syntax, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG.

In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked. This book is a cross-linguistic study of how object marking is affected by information structure, the grammatical structuring of the utterance in accordance with context.