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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in Contemporary Linguistics SCL |
Release date: |
August 1994 |
First published: |
August 1994 |
Authors: |
Carl Pollard
• Ivan A. Sag
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Dimensions: |
227 x 154 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
454 |
Edition: |
2nd ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-67447-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-67447-9 |
Barcode: |
9780226674476 |
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