Syntactic Theory

Lecture with Tutorial / Exercise (Vorlesung mit Übung), Winter Semester 2007/08
Zweiter Studienabschnitt and M.Sc. Program
Lecturers: PD Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de) & Yi Zhang (yzhang@coli.uni-sb.de)
Time and Place (Zeit und Ort): Lecture (Vorlesung) Tue (Di) 16:00 - 18:00, Bau C 72, Seminarraum / Tutorial-Exercise (Übung) Thu (Do) 14:00 - 16:00, Bau C 72, Konferenzraum 2.11
Begin: 25.10.2007
Office hours (Sprechstunde): Thursday (Do) 11:00 - 13:00 and after email communication

Course description

In this series of lectures we focus on the following topics:

characteristic properties of different grammar models

Phrase Structure Grammars

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)

Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering

Bibliography

Joan Bresnan. 2001. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell.

Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan, John T. Maxwell III, and Annie Zaenen. 1995. Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar. CSLI/University of Chicago Press.

Mary Dalrymple. 2001. Lexical Functional Grammar. Volume 34, Syntax and Semantics. Academic Press.

Jan Hajic et al. (2003). PDT-VALLEX: Creating a Large-coverage Valency Lexicon for Treebank Annotation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-03). Växjö, Sweden.

Richard Hudson. (1990). English Word Grammar, Chapter 6. Blackwell.

Stefan Müller. 1999. Deutsche Syntax deklarativ. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche. Linguistische Arbeiten, Nr. 394, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Stefan Müller. 2005. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Eine Einführung.

Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag. 1994. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. CSLI/University of Chicago Press.

Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. 2003. Syntactic Theory. 2nd Edition. CSLI Publications.

Teaching Material

Exercises

Stellung im Studienplan

CL-Diplom: Pflichtveranstaltung; MA-NF: Diplomprüfung im Wahlfach "Grammatikformalismen und Grammatiktheorie"; Inf.-NF: Teil der Diplomprüfung; M.Sc. Program

Language of the course

English

Credit points

6 points for M.Sc. students -- 4 points for CL-Diplom students

Exam at the end of the semester (Für Studierende, die einen Schein benötigen, wird am Ende des Semesters eine Klausur angeboten (Deadline für online registration 15.02.2008)).

The lecture is accompanied by exercises. The participation in the lectures and the tutorials/exercises is compulsory. (Zu den Vorlesungen gibt es Kontrollfragen und Übungsaufgaben. Die regelmäßige Teilnahme und die Abgabe der Übungsaufgaben sind obligatorisch.)

Communication

There is a mailing list where the participants of the course need to register at the beginning of the semester. Please, send me an email, so that I can add you to the list.

Office hours

Additional office hours can be arranged via email.

Valia Kordoni

Last modified: Wed Oct 29 16:21:01 CET 2008