Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar
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Studies in contemporary phrase structure grammar
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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"This digitally printed version 2010"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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