Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook

by Stefan Müller (Editor), Anne Abeille (Editor), Robert D. Borsley (Editor)

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).


Contents:

Basic properties and elements
Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley

The evolution of HPSG
Dan Flickinger, Carl Pollard, Tom Wasow

Formal background
Frank Richter

The nature and role of the lexicon in HPSG
Anthony Davis, Jean-Pierre Koenig

HPSG in understudied languages
Douglas L Ball

Agreement
Stephen Wechsler

Case
Adam Przepiórkowski

Nominal structures
Frank Van Eynde

Argument structure and linking
Anthony Davis, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Stephen Wechsler

Constituent order
Stefan Müller

Complex predicates
Danièle Godard, Pollet Samvelian

Control and raising
Anne Abeillé

Unbounded dependencies
Robert D. Borsley, Berthold Crysmann

Relative Clauses in HPSG
Doug Arnold, Danièle Godard

Island phenomena and related matters
Rui Chaves

Coordination
Anne Abeillé, Rui Chaves

Idioms
Manfred Sailer

Negation
Jong-Bok Kim

Ellipsis
Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim

Anaphoric binding
Stefan Müller

Morphology
Berthold Crysmann

Semantics
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Frank Richter

Information structure
Kordula de Kuthy

Processing
Tom Wasow

Computational linguistics and grammar engineering
Emily M Bender, Guy Emerson

Grammar in dialogue
Andy Lücking, Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper

Gesture
Andy Lücking

HPSG and Minimalism
Robert D. Borsley, Stefan Müller

HPSG and Categorial Grammar
Yusuke Kubota

HPSG and Lexical Functional Grammar
Stephen Wechsler, Ash Asudeh

HPSG and Dependency Grammar
Richard Hudson

HPSG and Construction Grammar
Stefan Müller

1611 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Stefan Müller, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Stefan Müller studied Computer Science, Computational Linguistics and Linguistics at the Humboldt University at Berlin and in Edinburgh. He worked at the German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken and for the company Interice. He worked as acting chair for German and Computational Linguistics in Jena and for Theoretical Computational Linguistics in Potsdam. He had an assistant professorship in Bremen for theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics, a full professorship for German and General Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin and is now professor for German language with specialization in syntax at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

His main re­search topic is Ger­man gram­mar. He works both em­pir­i­cal­ly and the­o­ret­i­cal­ly. Top­ics of in­ter­est are mor­phol­o­gy, syn­tax, se­man­tics, and in­for­ma­tion struc­ture. He pub­lished main­ly about Ger­man, but he also works on other lan­guages as for in­stance Man­darin Chi­nese, Dan­ish, Mal­tese, and Per­sian. The the­o­ret­i­cal work is car­ried out in the frame­work of Head-​ Driv­en Phrase Struc­ture Gram­mar (HPSG) and the the­o­ret­i­cal anal­y­ses are im­ple­ment­ed in com­put­er-​pro­cess­able gram­mar frag­ments. The gram­mar frag­ments that are implemented in the CoreGram Project use a com­mon core. One goal of his re­search is to un­der­stand lan­guage and to find out what lan­guages in gen­er­al and cer­tain lan­guage class­es in par­tic­u­lar have in com­mon.

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