Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure GrammarRobert D. Levine, Georgia M. Green 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The lexical integrity of Japanese causatives | 39 |
2 A syntax and semantics for purposive adjuncts in HPSG | 80 |
3 On lexicalist treatments of Japanese causatives | 119 |
4 Modal flip and partial verb phrase fronting in German | 161 |
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adjectives affected object analysis anaphor ARG-S ARG-ST list argument structure assume attribute benefactive biclausal cake Carl Pollard CAT HEAD verb causative COMPS list constraints CONT ditransitive verb double infinitive example extraction feature structure finite verb German Hanako Hinrichs and Nakazawa honorification HPSG ID Schema infinitival purposives Ivan Sag Japanese John können Language and Information lexical analysis lexical entry lexical rule Linguistics LOC CAT HEAD main clause psoa main verb Märchen erzählen Mary mi-sase modal flip modify morpheme morphological MORPHON Naomi Nerbonne nonfinite NONLOC nontopicalized noun NP complements PHON phonological Phrase Structure Grammar Pollard and Sag predicate pronoun PVP topics QSTORE quantifier raising verb RatCs recipient interpretation relative clause sase scope semantic sentence SLASH value specification split NP topicalization stem structure-shared SUBCAT subcategorizes SYNSEM LOC CAT syntactic syntax Taroo theory TV-wo VAL COMPS valence verbal complex VFORM Ziroo