Syntactic Theory (WS 2010/2011)
Start: | Thursday 28.10.2010 |
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When: | Lecture: Thu 2-4pm, Exercise: Fri 12-2pm |
Where: | Building C 72, Seminarraum 1.12 |
Sprechstunde: | Fridays from 10 to 12 |
Summary
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
Course orientation
- M.Sc. Program: Obligatory core course for everyone.
- Standard time slot 1st semester.
Credit points
- M.Sc. 6 LP
Contact
PD Dr. Valia Kordoni
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
Building C7 2, Room 3.11
66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
email: kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de
phone: +49 681 302 4682
fax: +49 681 302 4700