Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Studies in Contemporary Linguistics) - Softcover

Pollard, Carl; Sag, Ivan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226674479 ISBN 13: 9780226674476

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

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.

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About the Author

Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013) was professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He was the author of Syntactic Theory, 2nd Edition, German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Interrogative Investigations, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226674479
• ISBN 13: 9780226674476
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 454