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Head-driven phrase structure grammar
Ivan A. Sag,Carl Jesse Pollard +1 more
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This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar, introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics," and demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems.Abstract:
This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics." HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing. This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of "understood" subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of "wh"-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents. The authors make clear how their approach compares with and improves upon approaches undertaken in other frameworks, including in particular the government-binding theory of Noam Chomsky.read more
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Do lemmas speak German?: A verb position effect in German structural priming
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A Context-free Approximation of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Bernd Kiefer,Hans-Ulrich Krieger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a context-free approximation of unification-based grammars, such as HPSG or PATR-II, is presented, based on a least fixpoint construction over a monotonic function.
Zur Analyse der deutschen Satzstruktur
TL;DR: The analysis presented here is the only HPSG analysis that explains the constituent order facts and that is compatible with the analysis of multiple constituents in front of the finite verb that is suggested in (Muller, Erscheint 2005).
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Traitement automatique des langues et apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur : bilan, résultats et perspectives
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Modular Grammar Engineering in GF
TL;DR: The goal is to make it possible for linguistically untrained programmers to write linguistically correct application grammars encoding the semantics of special domains, and the type system of GF guarantees that grammaticality is preserved.
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