Title: Relative Clauses in HPSG
Lecturer: Stefan Müller
Description:
The course will introduce the key concepts of Pollard and Sag (1994)
and will focus on basic parts of the HPSG theory.
There will be lectures about the general setup of the theory (feature
structure descriptions, types, multiple inheritance, valence
representation), nonlocal dependencies with a discussion of the formal
devices to introduce them (traces, immedeate dominance rules, lexical
rules, slash amalgamation), and relative clauses. The last lecture will discuss a special type
of relative clauses namely relative clauses without an overt antecedent element: so-called free relative clauses.
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of phrase structure grammar.
Sessions:
Monday 25.03.2002 11:00
Tuesday 26.03.2002 11:00
Thursday 28.03.2002 11:00
Course material (version of September 28, 2003):
Further Reading:
- Books
- An HPSG grammar for English and the key concepts of HPSG in general are described in:
- Pollard, Carl J. and Ivan A. Sag, 1987.
Information-Based Syntax and Semantics Volume 1 Fundamentals.
No. 13 in CSLI Lecture Notes, Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
- Pollard, Carl J. and Ivan A. Sag, 1994.
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press.
- An HPSG grammar for German is described in:
- Introductory books:
- Borsley, Robert D., 1999.
Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach. second edition, London: Edward Arnold.
- Sag, Ivan A. and Thomas Wasow, 1999.
Syntactic Theory:
A Formal Introduction. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
- Literature about HPSG in general can be found at: