This book provides a relatively non-technical introduction to the theory.

This book encompasses more formally oriented work as well as introductory material and work related to the glue approach. The book contains the following papers, some reprints of previously-published work and some written especially for the book:

• Overview and Introduction, by Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat
• Quantification, Anaphora, and Intensionality, by Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat
• Proof Nets and Negative Polarity Licensing, by John Fry
• Context Change, Underspecification, and the Structure of Glue Language Derivations, by Richard Crouch and Josef van Genabith
• Resource Sharing in Glue Language Semantics, by Andrew Kehler, Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat
• Dynamic and Underspecified Semantics for LFG, by Josef van Genabith and Richard Crouch
• Relating Resource-based Semantics to Categorial Semantics, by Mary Dalrymple, Vineet Gupta, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat
• LFG as Concurrent Constraint Programming, by Vijay Saraswat
• LFG as Labeled Deduction, by Dick Oehrle
• Type-driven Semantic Interpretation and Feature Dependencies in R-LFG, by Mark Johnson

• Efficient Linear Logic Meaning Assembly. Vineet Gupta and John Lamping. COLING-ACL '98, Montreal, Canada. August 1998.
Identifies restrictions on the fragment of linear logic used in glue language deductions, and develops a new algorithm for glue language deduction that exploits these restrictions.

• Resource Sensitivity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface and the German Split NP Construction. Jonas Kuhn. In T. Kiss and D. Meurers, eds., Proceedings of the ESSLLI X workshop ``Current topics in constraint-based theories of Germanic syntax'', Saarbruecken. 1998.
• The syntax and semantics of split NPs in LFG. Jonas Kuhn. In T. Kiss and D. Meurers, eds., Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Kuhn's work provides a clever analysis of the German split NP construction within the glue framework.

• Quantifiers, Anaphora, and Intensionality. Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 6(3), pp. 219--273. 1997.
Appears (with some modifications) as Chapter 2 of Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar.

• Negative Polarity Licensing at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. John Fry. Proceedings of ACL/EACL, Madrid, Spain, July 1997.
• Polarity Sensitivity and Scope in `Glue Language' Semantics. John Fry. In Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference, San Diego, June 1997.
Chapter 3 of Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar presents Fry's work on negative polarity licensing.

• Linear Logic for Meaning Assembly. Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Logic for Natural Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK. 1995.
An overview paper. If you are new to the glue approach, take a look at this paper first.

• The Resource Logic of Complex Predicate Interpretation. Mary Dalrymple, Angie Hinrichs, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat. Proceedings of the 1993 Republic of China Computational Linguistics Conference (ROCLING), Hsitou National Park, Taiwan. 1993.
Proposes a treatment of complex predicates at the syntax-semantics interface.

• LFG Semantics via Constraints. Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics. 1993.
The original "glue" paper. The overview presented here has remained surprisingly stable since 1993, though the notation has undergone some modification.

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