Buch, Englisch, 341 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 559 g
Buch, Englisch, 341 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 559 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-14109-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book, originally published in 1999, 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.
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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.
