Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG assumes that word order and phrasal constituency are modelled at a syntactic level called constituent structure. The inventory of word classes that most LFG analyses assume includes the distinction between projecting and nonprojecting categories. The chapter explores the featural decomposition of category labels, citing how word classes are composed of more primitive features that allow generalizations across classes, which allows explicit constraints on how lexical and functional categories interact. It also elaborates on the concept of lexical sharing and the theory of mixed category, while also considering the difference between projecting and nonprojecting categories.
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