Partial Word Order Representation of Urdu Sentence in Lexical Functional Grammar

Natural languages with free word order contain sentences with partial constituent ordering. Urdu is an example of free word order language. Computational treatment of Urdu sentence requires a suitable formalism that should be capable enough to represent the syntax and expressive enough to describe the free word order. Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) does not only represent the syntax but also have expressive power of describing free constituent ordering of a sentence. LFG handles syntax representation with free word order of Urdu sentence in a quite reasonable way. In this paper LFG representation of different Urdu language sentences with partial word order is discussed with examples in LFG Grammar Writer's Workbench (GWB) for Linux.