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This course addresses characteristic properties of different grammar models and covers fundamental concepts in syntactic analysis such as syntactic categories, syntactic functions, constituent structure, dependency structure, the syntax-semantics interface, and phenomena such as anaphoric binding and long-distance dependencies. The emphasis is on formally precise encoding of linguistic hypotheses and the design of grammars that can scale up to ever larger fragments of a language such as is required in practical applications. Problem sets will also introduce data and phenomena from other languages. The following topics will be discussed:
- A global overview of syntactic theory, and the Chomskyan tradition
- Dependency Grammars
- Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG)
- Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
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Introductory reading on Chomskyan tradition
- Carnie, Andrew (2001). Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
- Haegeman, Liliane (1991). Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
- Ouhalla, Jamal (1994). Introducing Transformational Grammar. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recommended Reading on Dependency Grammars:
- Hudson, Richard (2002). Introduction to Word Grammar
- Kahane, Sylvain (2003). Meaning Text Theory. Dependency and Valency. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Sciences 25. 1-2. Berlin/NY: De Gruyter. 32p.
References on Tree-Adjoining Grammars:
- Aravind Joshi and Yves Schabe (1997). Tree-Adjoining Grammars.
- Anthony Kroch and Aravind Joshi (1985). The Linguistic Relevance of Tree Adoining Grammars.
- Tonia Bleam, et al (2001). A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar for English.
Recommended Reading on Lexical-Functional Grammar:
- Bresnan, Joan (2001). Lexical-Functional Syntax. Blackwell Publishers: Malden, USA/Oxford UK.
- Dalrymple, Mary, Ron M. Kaplan, John T. Maxwell III and Annie Zaenen (eds). (1995). Formal Issues in Lexical Functional Grammar. CSLI Publications: Palo Alto, USA.
- Dalrymple, Mary (2001). Lexical Functional Grammar. Academic Press: San Diego, USA/London, UK.
Recommended Reading on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar:
- Pollard, Carl and Sag, Ivan (1994). Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. University of Chicago Press.
- Sag, Ivan A., Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. 2003. Syntactic Theory. 2nd Edition. CSLI Publications.
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Bemerkungen/Voraussetzungen
some previous knowledge in grammar formalisms desirable, but not required
Scheine
Written exam on April 19th, 2013
Stellung im Studienplan
Core course, obligatory for specialization Computational Linguistics;
standard time slot 1st semester. Area L. |
