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Syntactic Theory
Lecture with Tutorial / Exercise (Vorlesung mit Übung), Winter Semester 2008/09
Zweiter Studienabschnitt and M.Sc. Program
Lecturer: PD Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni@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: 28.10.2008
Office hours (Sprechstunde): Thursday (Do) 11:00 - 13:00 and after email communication
The course now has a mailing list. Participating students, who have not yet received a message from this list, HAVE to subscribe here (if you'd leave the course, you can later unsubscribe)
Course description
This course covers fundamental concepts in syntactic analysis such as part of speech types, constituent structure, dependency structure, the syntax-semantics interface, and phenomena such as anaphoric binding and other long-distance dependencies. We emphasise 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 focus is among others 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
Exercise of 06.11.2008: Context-Free Grammars. Due on Monday 10.11.2008 at 5pm. Solution.
Exercise of 13.11.2008: Dependency Grammars. Solution. Collins 1996:
Slides
Exercise of 27.11.2008: Tree-Adjoining Grammars. Due on Monday 1.12.2008 at 5pm. Solution (special thanks to Alessandra Zarcone for her kind support).
Exercise of 04.12.2008: Lexical Functional Grammar. Due on Monday 08.12.2008 at 5pm. Solution.
First Revision and Exercises. Due on Tuesday 06.01.2009 at 1pm. Solution (It also includes the solution of the exercise on the attributive adjectives in HPSG; see below).
Attributive Adjectives in HPSG. Due on Thursday 15.01.2009 at the beginning of the class.
Exercise of 22.01.2009: UDCs in HPSG.
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 06.02.2009)).
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: Thu Jan 29 16:12:52 CET 2009
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