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HPSG Gazette – Issue #9 (January 2016) –

Outline

Editorial
Report on thesis defense
Moves
HPSG Bibliography – Last entries
Strip of the issue

Editorial

Dear All,

after a HPSG-wonderful 2015, we wish you a HPSG-phenomenal 2016! Happy New Year to all of you! Or rather: Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! (let's prepare ourselves already for this summer).

The HPSG Gazette will be game again this year. The first issue of 2016 is now online. You can find here information on Liesbeth Augustinus's thesis defense (congratulations to her!), the impressive list of publications from the last quartal, and last but not least: the strip of the issue.

We wish the gazette to be a useful tool for all! Please send us HPSG-related information (reports on HPSG-related talks, work in progress, theses, new HPSG projects and software, moves within the HPSG community, etc.) for the next issue of the gazette (to appear in the middle of April) to:

gazette@hpsg.fu-berlin.de

Urgent information should be posted on the the HPSG mailing list rather than sent to the Gazette.

Best regards,
Elodie Winckel & Antonio Machicao y Priemer

Report on thesis defense

Liesbeth Augustinus: Complement Raising and Cluster Formation in Dutch. A Treebank-supported Investigation

On 8 October 2015 Liesbeth Augustinus defended her PhD dissertation, entitled "Complement Raising and Cluster Formation in Dutch. A Treebank-supported Investigation".

Liesbeth Augustinus
Series: LOT Dissertation Series
Utrecht: LOT, 2015
xiv + 286 pages
ISBN: 978-94-6093-195-6
Price: 35 euro for a hard copy; the soft copy is available as an Open Access PDF document
URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/complement-raising-and-cluster-formation-in-dutch

Dutch is well-known for its verb clusters, i.e. constructions in which multiple verbs group together. This dissertation presents the most influential analyses of verb clusters in descriptive and generative syntax (transformational as well as monostratal). It discusses phenomena that are typically related to cluster formation, such as Infinitivus Pro Participio, word order variation, and the interruption of clusters by non-verbal material.
Furthermore, this dissertation investigates how a corpus-based study can shed new light on the current syntactic theories with respect to cluster formation. For the corpus study, syntactically annotated corpora or treebanks are used, since they allow for the empirical investigation of Dutch syntax beyond the lexical level. The observations from the treebanks with regard to the set of clustering verbs, the word order variation in verb clusters, and the instances of cluster interruption are compared to the literature. Special attention goes out to constructions containing te-infinitives, as it is not always trivial to decide whether they are part of the verb cluster or not.
Based on the results of the corpus study, a novel analysis of verb clusters is proposed in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). It is demonstrated that this analysis deals more adequately with verb clusters than previous HPSG approaches. An important consequence of the new analysis is that it not only deals with genuine verb clusters, but also accounts for ambiguous constructions. In addition, it extends to the analysis of other phenomena, such as adposition stranding.

Moves in the HPSG-community

The new contact information of Philippa Cook can be founded here:
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/55067540/cook

HPSG Bibliography: Last entries

Here's the updated bibliography with the submissions since our last issue. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the bibliography!



@inproceedings{AlQurashi:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "AlQurashi, Issa S.",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "6--26",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "An Analysis of Simple and Construct-State Noun Phrases in Modern Standard Arabic",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/alqurashi.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 

@book{Augustinus_Liesbeth11.04.201514:45:55,
 	address      = "Utrecht",
 	author       = "Liesbeth Augustinus",
 	email        = "liesbeth@ccl.kuleuven.be",
 	homepage     = "http://www.ccl.kuleuven.be/~liesbeth/",
 	number       = "413",
 	publisher    = "LOT",
 	series       = " LOT Dissertation Series",
 	title        = "Complement Raising and Cluster Formation in Dutch. A Treebank-supported Investigation",
 	url          = "http://www.lotpublications.nl/complement-raising-and-cluster-formation-in-dutch",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Arad-Greshler:Herzig-Sheinfux:ea:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Arad Greshler, Tali and Herzig Sheinfux, Livnat and Melnik, Nurit and Wintner, Shuly",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "27--40",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Development of Maximally Reusable Grammars: Parallel Development of Hebrew and Arabic 
Grammars",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/ahmw.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
}
 
@inproceedings{Arnold:Spencer:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Arnold, Doug and Spencer, Andrew",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "41--60",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "A Constructional Analysis for the Skeptical",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/arnold-spencer.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Bond:Ho:ea:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Bond, Francis and Ho, Jia Qian and Flickinger, Dan",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "61--74",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Feeling our way to an analysis of English possessed idioms",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/bhf.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Emerson:Copestake:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Emerson, Guy and Copestake, Ann",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "75--95",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/emerson-copestake.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Fan:Song:ea:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Fan, Zhenzhen and Song, Sanghoun and Bond, Francis",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "96--109",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Building Zhong, a Chinese HPSG Shared-Grammar",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/fsb.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Haugereid:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Haugereid, Petter",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "110--121",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Unique lexical entries in a subconstructional grammar",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/haugereid.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Herzig-Sheinfux:Arad-Greshler:ea:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Herzig Sheinfux, Livnat and Arad Greshler, Tali and Melnik, Nurit and Wintner, Shuly",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "122--135",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Hebrew Verbal Multi-Word Expressions",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/hamw.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 

@article{Kim:15,
 	author       = "Jong-Bok Kim",
 	journal      = "Lingua",
 	pages        = "260--293",
 	title        = "Syntactic and Semantic Identity in {Korean} Sluicing: {A} Direct Interpretation Approach",
 	volume       = "166, Part B",
 	year         = "2015"
}
 
@inproceedings{Kratochvil:Delpada:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Kratochvil, FrantišÂ¡ek and Delpada, Benidiktus",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "216--233",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Degrees of affectedness and verbal prefixation in Abui (Papuan)",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/kratochvil-delpada.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 

@article{Loukam:Balla:ea:15,
 	author       = "Mourad Loukam and Amar Balla and Mohamed Tayeb Laskri",
 	journal      = "International Journal of Speech Technology",
 	title        = "Towards an Open Platform Based on {HPSG} Formalism for the {Standard Arabic} Language",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Maekawa:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Maekawa, Takafumi",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "136--156",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "`Agreement mismatch' between sort/kind/type and the determiner",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/maekawa.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
}

@incollection{Mueller:15,
 	address      = "Berlin, Boston",
 	author       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	booktitle    = "{Satztypen und Konstruktionen im Deutschen}",
 	editor       = "Rita Finkbeiner and J{\"o}rg Meibauer",
 	pages        = "72--105",
 	publisher    = "De Gruyter",
 	series       = "Linguistik -- Impulse und Tendenzen",
 	title        = "{Satztypen: Lexikalisch oder/und phrasal}?",
 	url          = "http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/satztypen.html",
 	year         = "2015"
}

@proceedings{Mueller:15b,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Oshima:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Oshima, David Y.",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "157--176",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Ellipsis of SAY, THINK, and DO in Japanese subordinate clauses: A constructional 
analysis",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/oshima.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Sio:Song:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Sio, Joanna Ut-Seong and Song, Sanghoun",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "177--194",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "Divergence in Expressing Definiteness between {Mandarin} and {Cantonese}",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/sio-song.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
 
@inproceedings{Sio:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Sio, Joanna Ut-Seong",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "234--241",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/sio.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
} 
@book{Van-Eynde:15,
 	address      = "Stanford",
 	author       = "Frank {Van Eynde}",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	series       = "Studies in Constraint-based Lexicalism",
 	title        = "Predicative Constructions: From the Fregean to a Montagovian Treatment",
 	year         = "2015"
}

@inproceedings{Wang:Song:ea:15,
 	address      = "Stanford, CA",
 	author       = "Wang, Wenjie and Song, Sanghoun and Bond, Francis",
 	booktitle    = "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore",
 	editor       = "Stefan M{\"u}ller",
 	pages        = "195--214",
 	publisher    = "CSLI Publications",
 	title        = "A Constraint-based Analysis of A-NOT-A Questions in Mandarin Chinese",
 	url          = "http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2015/wsb.pdf",
 	year         = "2015"
}

@inproceedings{Yatabe:15,
 	address      = "Kyoto, Japan",
 	author       = "Shuichi Yatabe",
 	booktitle    = "Nihon Gengogakkai Dai-151-kai Taikai Yokô-shû (Proceedings of the 151st Meeting of 
the Linguistic Society of Japan)",
 	homepage     = "http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yatabe/",
 	organization = "Nihon Gengogakkai",
 	pages        = "318-323",
 	title        = "The semantic inertness of medial right-node raising in Japanese",
 	url          = "http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002778",
 	year         = "2015"
}

Please submit further entries to make the HPSG-Bibliography as complete as possible. Older papers not yet registered are welcome as well.

Strip of the issue

A semantic argument

The strip of the issue was brought to you by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Zach Weinersmith).