Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar

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Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar

edited by Robert D. Levine and Georgia M. Green

Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Includes examples in English, German, and Japanese (romanized)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book explores a wide variety of theoretically central issues in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a major theory of syntactic representation, particularly in the domain of natural language computation. HPSG is a strongly lexicon-driven theory, like several others on the scene, but unlike the others it also relies heavily on an explicit assignment of linguistic objects to membership in a hierarchically organised network of types, where constraints associated with any given type are inherited by all of its subtypes. This theoretical architecture allows HPSG considerable flexibility within the confines of a highly restrictive, mathematically explicit formalism, requiring no derivational machinery and invoking only a single level of syntactic representation. The separate chapters consider a variety of problematic phenomena in German, Japanese and English and suggest important extensions of, and revisions to, the picture of HPSG.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction Georgia M. Green and Robert D. Levine
  • 1. The lexical integrity of Japanese causatives Christopher Manning, Ivan Sag and Masayo Iida
  • 2. A syntax and semantics for purposive adjuncts in HPSG Michael J. R. Johnston
  • 3. On lexicalist treatments of Japanese causatives Takao Gunji
  • 4. 'Modal flip' and partial verb phrase fronting in German Kathryn L. Baker
  • 5. A lexical comment on a syntactic topic Kazuhiko Fukushima
  • 6. Agreement and the syntax-morphology Interface in HPSG Andreas Kathol
  • 7. Partial VP and split NP topicalization in German: an HPSG analysis Erhard W. Hinrichs and Tsuneko Nakazawa
  • Index.

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