Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

✍ Scribed by Carl Jesse Pollard, Ivan A. Sag

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing.This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of "understood" subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents. The authors make clear how their approach compares with and improves upon approaches undertaken in other frameworks, including in particular the government-binding theory of Noam Chomsky.

✦ Table of Contents

First Page
......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 17
1.1 The Structure of the Sign......Page 31
1.2 Some Formal Properties of HPSG Feature Structures......Page 33
1.3 The Linguistic Application of Feature Structure Descriptions......Page 37
1.4 Phrasal Signs and Principles of Universal Grammar......Page 47
1.5 Immediate Dominance Schemata......Page 53
1.6 Complementizers......Page 60
1. 7 Determiners, Quantifiers, and Quantifier Storage......Page 63
1.8 Possessives......Page 67
1.9 Adjuncts......Page 71
1.10 Conclusion......Page 73
2.1 Two Views of Agreement......Page 76
2.2 Problems for Derivation-Based Agreement Theories......Page 78
2.3 How Syntactic Is English Agreement?......Page 83
2.4 Agreement in English......Page 89
2.5 Further Issues......Page 104
2.6 Hybrid Agreement......Page 112
2. 7 Conclusion......Page 113
3.2 Category Selection and Small Clauses......Page 116
3.3 Stowell Structures
......Page 125
3.4 Unsaturated Complements......Page 139
3.5 Equi and Raising......Page 148
3.6 Expletive Pronoun Constructions......Page 161
3. 7 Raised Expletives......Page 167
3.8 Conclusion......Page 172
4.1 Introduction......Page 173
4.2 Filler-Gap Constructions......Page 175
4.3 Tough Constructions......Page 182
4.4 The Trace Principle......Page 187
4.5 Parasitic Gaps......Page 198
4.6 More on Island Constraints......Page 216
4. 7 Conclusion......Page 223
5.2 English Relative Clauses......Page 224
5.3 Relative-Correlative Constructions......Page 243
5.4 Internally Headed Relative Clauses......Page 248
5.5 Conclusion......Page 252
6.2 The Binding Theory of Chomsky 1986a......Page 254
6.3 Problems for Chomsky's Binding Theory......Page 259
6.4 A Nonconfigurational Binding Theory......Page 264
6.5 Binding Theory and Expletive Pronouns......Page 274
6.6 The Facts Explained......Page 278
6.
7 Nonsyntactic Factors in the Distribution of Exempt Anaphors......Page 282
6.8 Alternatives......Page 288
6.9 Conclusion......Page 296
7.1 Introduction......Page 298
7.2 The Semantic Nature of Controller Assignment......Page 301
7.3 The Realization of Controllers: Manzini's and Visser's
Generalizations......Page 312
7.4 Complement Coercion......Page 324
7.5 Control Theory and Coerced Complements......Page 330
7.6 Conclusion......Page 333
8.2 Quantificational Content and Nuclear Content......Page 334
8.3 Modifiers Revisited......Page 345
8.4 Contextual Information......Page 348
8.5 Some Analytic Alternatives......Page 353
8.6 Conclusion......Page 359
9.1 Introduction......Page 360
9.2 On Horsley's Arguments from English......Page 362
9.3 The SUBJ/COMPS Distinction in the Analysis of Welsh......Page 367
9.4 The Status of Specifiers......Page 374
9.5 Extraction Revisited......Page 392
9.6 Inversion Revisited......Page 404
9.7 Cla
ssifying Headed Structures......Page 407
9.8 Conclusion......Page 409
Appendix......Page 411
A.l The Sort Hierarchy......Page 412
A.2 The Principles......Page 415
A.3 The ID Schemata......Page 418
A.4 The Raising Principle (p. 140)......Page 419
References......Page 421
Index of Names......Page 439
Index of Languages......Page 444
Index of Subjects......Page 445

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология;