German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes, No. 46)

Nerbonne, John; Pollard, Carl; Netter, Klaus (eds.)

ISBN 10: 1881526291 / ISBN 13: 9781881526292

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 1994

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xi, 404pp., index, references, figures. Very light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes, No. 46)
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881526291
• ISBN 13: 9781881526292
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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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.