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Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface in Lexicalist Theories

Vorlesung: Computerlinguistik, 2. Studienabschnitt
Leitung: Dr. Valia Kordoni (kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de)
Ort: Bau 17.2, Konferenzraum 2.11
Zeit: Di, Mi 16-18
Beginn: 21.04.2004
Geeignet für: Diplom, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Sprechstunde: Donnerstag 15-16 (ODER nach Vereinbarung per Email)

Course Description

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the interface between (morpho-)syntax and word meaning. One of the main reasons for that is that generalizations over word classes have been proven to help linguistic theories - especially the ones developed in the generative tradition - overcome the natural limitations of syntax.

In lexicalist theories like Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), where the structure of the lexical knowledge plays a central role in the theory, the interest in the interaction between (morpho-)syntax and word meaning has led to the development of linking models like the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT), the "Optimal Linking" Theory of Butt, Dalrymple and Frank (1997) and the Hierarchical Lexicon models. But although these linking models have as a common starting point the recognition of the importance of word classes for the interface between semantics and syntax, they vary both ontologically and in the range of linguistic phenomena they attempt to explain.

The aim of this course is to present and explore approaches on formal, empirical and computational issues related to the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface in lexicalist theories (mainly LFG and HPSG). It also intends to address inter-framework discussions, since it focuses on both LFG and HPSG.

Stellung in Studienplan

Wahlpflichtveranstaltung für Diplom-CL und MA-NF; Syntax und Semantik

Teaching Material

Handouts will be given to students every week.

  • Lecture of 21.04.2004: Introduction

  • Lecture of 04.05.2004: What is Lexical Semantics and Traditional Argument Structure Theories

  • Lecture of 05.05.2004: Lexical Decomposition Approaches and Exercises

  • Lecture of 11.05.2004: Lexical Semantics and Linking in LFG (Part I)

  • Lecture of 12.05.2004: Lexical Semantics and Linking in LFG (Part II)

  • Lecture of 18.05.2004: Lexical Semantics and Linking in LFG (Part III)

  • Lecture of 19.05.2004: Lexical Semantics and Linking in LFG (Part IV)

  • Lecture of 01.06.2004: Lexical Semantics and Linking in LFG (Part V) and "Optimal" Linking for Modern Greek Psych Verb Constructions (Part I)

  • Lecture of 02.06.2004: "Optimal" Linking for Modern Greek Psych Verb Constructions (Part II) and Valence Alternations in German: at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Part I)

  • Lecture of 08.06.2004: Valence Alternations in German: at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Part II)

  • Lecture of 09.06.2004: Linking Indirect Arguments

  • Lecture of 15.06.2004: Jiri Semecky on "Corpus-based Induction of an LFG Syntax-Semantics Interface for Frame Semantic Processing"

  • Lecture of 16.06.2004: Bettina Fromkorth on Wechsler (1995) The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure (Part I)

  • Lecture of 22.06.2004: Bettina Fromkorth on Wechsler (1995) The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure (Part II; Bettina's slides)

  • Lecture of 23.06.2004: (Re)formalizing the Hierarchical Lexicon (Wechsler 1995)

  • Lecture of 29.06.2004: Svenja Meyer on Flickinger (1987) Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon

  • Lecture of 30.06.2004: Antske Fokkens on Davis (2001) Linking by Types in the Hierachical Lexicon (Part I)

  • Lecture of 06.07.2004: Antske Fokkens on Davis (2001) Linking by Types in the Hierachical Lexicon (Part II)

  • Lecture of 07.07.2004: Joel Wagner on Davis (2001) Linking by Types in the Hierachical Lexicon

  • Lecture of 13-14-20.07.2004: Generative Lexicon

    Literatur

    For an overview of the literature on the various linking models developed in LFG and HPSG, students are encouraged to use the following sources:

  • LFG

  • HPSG

  • Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT)

  • "Optimal Linking" Theory

  • Literature on Constraint-Based Semantics - An LFG-based deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface

  • Hierarchical Lexicon models

  • Cornelia M . Verspoor's Ph.D. thesis Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics, University of Edinburgh, 1997

    • Kurssprachen

    Englisch und Deutsch

    Voraussetzungen

  • Vorlesung: Einführung in die allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
  • Vorlesung: Grammatikformalismen

    Scheine

    Für Studierende, die einen Schein benötigen, gibt es die Wahl zwischen einer Klausur am Ende des Semesters oder einem Referat plus Hausarbeit.

    Leistungspunkte

    6 LP (B.Sc. Computerlinguistik) / 4 LP (Diplomstudiengang)
    Valia Kordoni
    Last modified: Mon Oct 30 14:00:21 CET 2006