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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

By Ivan A. Sag , Carl Jesse Pollard

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0226674479, 9780226674476
LCC
P158.4 .P65 1994
Google Books ID
Ftvg8Vo3QHwC
Open Library ID
OL1408933M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30309308 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
458\458
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингви

Description

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.

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