Introduction to HPSG

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Course Areas

Morphology/Syntax

Course Description

In this course we survey the basic aspects and results of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a well-developed, mathematically precise, framework for grammatical analysis via simultaneous constraint satisfaction. Wherever possible, we include comparisons with competing approaches in other frameworks.

Class 1: Feature structures, the linguistic sign, basic clause structures, phrasal projection, lexical regularities, the hierarchical organization of lexical and phrasal information.
Class 2: Constituent order variation (within and across languages), order domains, auxiliaries, complex predicates via 'argument composition', 'clitics' and clitic 'climbing'.
Class 3: The feature-based analysis of long distance dependencies (in cross-linguistic perspective), island constraints.

Slides and Handouts

Class 1
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Class 2
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Class 3
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Literature

Müller, Stefan. 2010. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung. Stauffenburg Einführungen, No. 17, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
Müller, Stefan. 2002. Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, No. 13, Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Sag, Ivan A., Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. 2003. Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications. second edition.

You will find almost 1.000 other publications related to HPSG in the HPSG Online Bibliography.

Maintained by Stefan Müller and Ivan A. Sag.