SAG AND KATHOL

Language
CONSTRUCTIONS: AN HPSG PERSPECTIVE

Advanced course

IVAN A. SAG and ANDREAS KATHOL

CSLI, Stanford University and UC, Berkeley

Both weeks
sag@csli.stanford.edu and kathol@socrates.berkeley.edu

Course description

This course reviews a number of developments in HPSG that are convergent with recent work in such other traditions as Fillmore and Kay's Construction Grammar. This new perspective on phrases uses multiple inheritance hierarchies to express cross-cutting generalizations about syntactic phrases, in the process providing coverage of a broader range of phenomena than has previously been treated in HPSG grammars.

The primary focus of this course will be English clausal (declarative, interrogative, relative and imperative) constructions, as analyzed by Sag, Ginzburg, Malouf and others. There will also be a secondary focus on issues raised by Kathol's related work on German clausal constructions and also on the comparative perspective provided by work on French by Abeille et al. and other studies that might be available by the time of ESSLLI.

The theoretical framework presented in this course has been the basis for the grammar implementation effort of CSLI's ERGO project. The implementation-oriented course proposed by Oepen, Flickinger and Copestake will be coordinated with this more theoreticaly oriented course. The intention is to use our work in HPSG to provide an example of the relation between linguistic theory and computational practice.

Prerequisites
This course will presuppose some background in syntax and some background in logic, but will not presuppose an in depth background in HPSG.

Literature
No specific recommendation

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Language	CONSTRUCTIONS: AN HPSG PERSPECTIVE
Advanced course	IVAN A. SAG and ANDREAS KATHOL CSLI, Stanford University and UC, Berkeley
Both weeks	sag@csli.stanford.edu and kathol@socrates.berkeley.edu
Course description	This course reviews a number of developments in HPSG that are convergent with recent work in such other traditions as Fillmore and Kay's Construction Grammar. This new perspective on phrases uses multiple inheritance hierarchies to express cross-cutting generalizations about syntactic phrases, in the process providing coverage of a broader range of phenomena than has previously been treated in HPSG grammars. The primary focus of this course will be English clausal (declarative, interrogative, relative and imperative) constructions, as analyzed by Sag, Ginzburg, Malouf and others. There will also be a secondary focus on issues raised by Kathol's related work on German clausal constructions and also on the comparative perspective provided by work on French by Abeille et al. and other studies that might be available by the time of ESSLLI. The theoretical framework presented in this course has been the basis for the grammar implementation effort of CSLI's ERGO project. The implementation-oriented course proposed by Oepen, Flickinger and Copestake will be coordinated with this more theoreticaly oriented course. The intention is to use our work in HPSG to provide an example of the relation between linguistic theory and computational practice.
Prerequisites	This course will presuppose some background in syntax and some background in logic, but will not presuppose an in depth background in HPSG.
Literature	No specific recommendation