Course Material for Comparing Frameworks: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
This course will be part of the PhD School Comparing Frameworks in Uetrecht.
Slides & Handouts
Literature
- The HPSG Online Bibliography
- Müller, Stefan, 2007. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung. Stauffenburg Einführungen Nr. 17, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
- Müller, Stefan (2010). Grammatiktheorie. Stauffenburg Einführungen Nr. 20, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
- Müller, Stefan. (To appear). Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In Artemis Alexiadou and Tibor Kiss (eds.), Syntax – Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, second edition.
- Concerning Language Acquisition and the Poverty of the Stimulus:
- Bod, Rens, 2009. From Exemplar to Grammar: Integrating Analogy and Probability in Language Learning, Cognitive Science, 33(4), pages 752–793.
Other Resources
- The Grammix CD Rom: A bootable CD Rom that contains the Trale system and implementations of grammars that cover the phenomena discussed in the course. In addition it contains German slides and the German text book and the Babel System.
- Grammar fragments of German: The grammar fragments that are also on the Grammix CD Rom.
- Grammar fragments of various languages: The grammar fragments that share a common core grammar.
- Standalone Version of Trale for Linux: If you run Linux and do not want to use Grammix, you may use this standalone system.
- The Babel System: An implementation of
a German HPSG grammar and a parser. Babel is also
part of the Grammix CD-Rom.
(Danger! The analyses partly differ from those described in the course material. The system implements a linearization analysis.)