LFG and Tree-Adjoining Grammar

This chapter gives an introduction to Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG) and draws some comparisons with Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). It is primarily aimed at those familiar with LFG who are looking to learn about TAG and see where the two formalisms differ\slash overlap, but the comparisons will also be of interest to those coming from a TAG background. After introducing TAG, the chapter considers questions of generative capacity, lexicalisation, and the factoring of redundancies from grammars. It then concludes by illustrating the potential for combining LFG and TAG, and discusses the theoretical implications of doing so.