German in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar: 46 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)

ISBN 10: 1881526291 / ISBN 13: 9781881526292

Published by The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1995

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Synopsis:

These essays apply the syntactic theory of Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag—Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)—to a formal study and analysis of German grammar. A wide variety of fundamental and well-known phenomena in German grammar are addressed, including the German passive and impersonal passive, various Mittelfeld and Vorfeld word-order phenomena (including auxiliary stacking and the distribution of adjuncts), and the structure of phrasal constituents. Linguistic issues include the treatment of idioms, word-order variation and phrase structure constituency, subcategorization, complementation, argument structure, case assignment, lexical rules, and syntactic ambiguity.

The theoretical background for these essays can be found in Information-Based Syntax and Semantics and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, both by Pollard and Sag and both available from the University of Chicago Press.

About the Author:

Erhard W. Hinrichs is professor of general and computational linguistics at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. John Nerbonne is professor of information science at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Bibliographic Details

Title: German in Head-driven Phrase Structure ...
Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good