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Syntax and Morphology Interface: A Study within Lexical- Functional Grammar
Jalal Sa’dullah Hassan
University of Garmian – College of Education – Department of English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/lang.7.2.17
Keywords: LFG, c-structure, f-structure, grammatical relations
Abstract
The present paper is aimed at providing information on the interaction of syntax and morphology within Lexical-Functional Grammar (hereinafter LFG). It is to introduce how c-structure and f-structure as levels of representation in LFG are assigned to sentences in English Language. This paper is also an investigation of how distinct syntactic relations are obtained when changing words or phrases in sentence structures. This is obviously shown in c-structure and f-structure. The former denotes the constituent structure of sentences which entails the composition of words into phrasal constituents hierarchically. Whereas, the latter represents the grammatical relations between the units of a sentence, which includes subject, object, complement, adverbial, and so forth. Further, the aim of the paper is to cast light on different important phenomena that are the principal concern of LFG viz head mobility, passive, and wh-movement. Finally, how changes of lexical forms of processes and participants assign verbs with different functions and changes the structure of sentences.
