Syntactic Theory
(WS 2009-2010)

Yi Zhang

Antske Fokkens


Description

In this series of lectures, we discuss several syntactic theories. The following topics will be discussed:


Course Info

Time: Tuesday 16:15 - 17:45, Thursday 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Seminar Room, Build C72
Office hours: TBA (after email contact)
Course Start: 15.10.2009
Type: Lecture (Vorlesung)
Suitable for: M.Sc.
Credits: 6 CP

Course Structure

The course is organized into a series of lecures interleaved with excercise sessions. While sessions are mainly ordered according to different linguistic frameworks, revision sessions allow us to regularly review and compare different frameworks in details.

We are grateful to PD. Dr. Valia Kordoni for sharing her teaching materials with us. The slides used in this lecture are loosely based on her slides of the same course in previous years, with modifications to suit the schedule of this semester.

There is a mailing list for distributing course-related information. You can find it from the CoLi Mailing List Server. You might need to access from University or CoLi network, due to security restrictions.

Schedule

# Date Topic Lecturer Exercise
1 15.10.2009 General Introduction Yi & Antske -
2 20.10.2009 Historic Overview and Transformational syntax Antske & Yi -
3 22.10.2009 Syntax in the Chomskyan Tradition Antske -
4 27.10.2009 Dependency Grammars Antske -
5 29.10.2009 Dependency Grammars Antske (+)
E-mail on
background
due tomorrow
6 03.11.2009 Dependency Grammars Antske Exercise 1
handed out
7 05.11.2009 Tree-Adjoining Grammar Yi -
8 10.11.2009 Tree-Adjoining Grammar Yi -
9 12.11.2009 Tree-Adjoining Grammar Yi -
10 17.11.2009 Tree-Adjoining Grammar Yi Exercise 2
handed out
Exercise 1 due
11 19.11.2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Antske -
12 24.11.2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Antske -
13 26.11.2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Antske Exercise 2 due
14 01.12.2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Antske Exercise 3
+
15 03.12.2009 Dependency Grammar + TAG Antske + Yi +
LFG Sample Solution
LFG Inventory
16 08.12.2009 Typed Feature Structures Yi/Antske Exercise 3 due
17 10.12.2009 Typed Feature Structures Yi Exercise 4
-
  10.14.2009 Typed Feature Structures: Optional Tutorial Antske/Yi Conference Room, Building C7.4
18 15.12.2009 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Yi Exercise 4 due
19 17.12.2009 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Yi First Revision
LFG Solution Part 2 and 3 C-structure trees
  22.12.2009 (Christmas & New Year)    
24.12.2009
29.12.2009
31.12.2009
20 05.01.2010 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Yi Exercise 5
21 07.01.2010 Revision Session Yi + Antske +
Reading Assignment: Kaplan (1994)
Revision Solution
22 12.01.2010 Long Distance Dependencies in LFG Antske -
23 14.01.2010 Long Distance Dependencies in LFG Antske Lecture takes place in
Building B3.2,
HS 0.03
24 19.01.2010 Long Distance Dependencies in HPSG Yi Exercise 6 (LFG,HPSG) Handed out
Exercise 5 due
25 21.01.2010 Exercise session: HPSG and LFG Yi/Antske Exercise 5 Sample Solution
LFG Exercuse 6 Sample Solution
26 26.01.2010 Raising and Control in LFG Antske -
27 28.01.2010 Raising and Control in LFG Antske Revision exercise
28 02.02.2010 Raising and Control in HPSG Yi Sample solution to HPSG-UDC Exercise
29 04.02.2010 Raising and Control in HPSG Yi Test Exam
LFG solution
-- 12.02.2010 Revision and questions Antske and Yi C72 Seminar room, 10:00
Revision materials:
LFG HPSG
-- 17.02.2010 EXAM, 10:00am, Building B3.1, Hörsaal II Antske and Yi  

Literature

Recommended Reading on Dependency Grammars:

References on Tree-Adjoining Grammars:

Recommended Reading on Lexical-Functional Grammar:

Recommended Reading on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar:


Last modified: February 16 2010.

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