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Syntactic Theory

Lecture with Tutorial / Exercise (Vorlesung mit Übung), Winter Semester 2005/06
Zweiter Studienabschnitt and M.Sc. Programme
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, Seminarraum
Begin: 18.10.2005
Office hours (Sprechstunde): Wednesday (Mittwoch) 16:00 - 17:00

Course description

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

  • characteristic properties of different grammar models
  • Phrase Structure Grammars
  • Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
  • Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
  • German in HPSG

    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

  • Lecture of 18.10.2005. Bibliography related to the topics of the lecture.

  • Lecture of 20.10.2005: Dependency Grammar (the handout can be found in the "Syntactic Theory" folder in the library (folder WS05-06)).

  • Lecture of 25.10.2005: Dependency Grammar (2) (the handout -- the same as for the lecture of 20.10.2005 -- can be found in the "Syntactic Theory" folder in the library (folder WS05-06)).

  • Lecture of 27.10.2005.

  • 01.11.2005: Holiday.

  • Lecture of 03.11.2005. (Reading: Ronald M. Kaplan. 1995. The Formal Architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar. In Dalrymple, M., Kaplan, R. M., Maxwell, J. T. III, Zaenen, A. (eds.), Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, pp. 1-21, 1995. CSLI/University of Chicago Press. (Please, see the book in the library for the latest version of the paper)).

  • Lecture of 08.11.2005. (More on functions here).

  • Lecture of 22.11.2005: Introduction to HPSG I (the hard copy of Handouts 1 and 2 are in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 24.11.2005: Introduction to HPSG II (the hard copy of Handout 3 is in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 29.11.2005: Introduction to HPSG III(1) (the hard copy of Handout 4 is in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 01.12.2005: Introduction to HPSG III(2) (the hard copy of Handout 4 is in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 08.12.2005: UDCs in HPSG (the hard copy of Handout 7 is in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 13.12.2005: UDCs in HPSG (2) (the hard copy of Handout 7 is in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Lecture of 15.12.2005: Slashed Subjects, Parasitic Gaps, Island Constraints and Extraction in HPSG (Handout in the folder in the library)
    Compulsory Reading for next session, Tuesday 20.12.2005: Gosse Bouma, Robert Malouf, and Ivan A. Sag. 2001. "Satisfying constraints on extraction and adjunction." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 19:1-65. You can download a .pdf latest version of the paper from Rob Malouf's web site).

  • Lecture of 20.12.2005: Slashed Subjects, Parasitic Gaps, Island Constraints and Extraction in HPSG (2) (Handout in the folder in the library).

  • Lecture of 22.12.2005: First Revision and Exercises. The questions (21) and (22) are due as exercises on Tuesday the 10th of January 2006 at the lecture.

  • Lecture of 10.01.2006: Nonlocal Dependencies in LFG. Additional slides can be found in the folder of the course in the library.

  • Lecture of 18.-19.-24.01.2006: Anaphoric Binding in HPSG.

  • Lecture of 26.01.2006: LFG Binding Theory -- Slides in the Syntactic Theory Folder in the library (Folder WS05-06).

    Relevant Reading:

    1. Dalrymple, Mary, John T. Maxwell III, and Annie Zaenen. 1995. Modeling Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding. In Dalrymple, M., Kaplan, R. M., Maxwell, J. T. III, Zaenen, A. (eds.), Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar, pp. 167-175, 1995. CSLI/University of Chicago Press.

    2. Dalrymple, Mary. 1993. The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding. CSLI Lecture Notes No. 36. CSLI Publications. (especially Chapter 4)

    3. Joan Bresnan. 2001. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell. (look at pp. 228-235)

  • Lecture of 31.01.2006: Anaphoric Binding in LFG (Part II).

  • Test Exam: Thursday 02.02.2006 at 14:00 s.t. in the Seminarraum.

  • Lecture of 09.02.2006: Anaphoric Binding in LFG (Part III).

  • Lecture of 14.02.2006: Final Revision.

  • Exam: Thursday 16.02.2006 at 14:00 s.t., Seminarraum, Building C7 2.

    Exercises

  • Assignments of 27.10.2005 on Dependency Grammar. The assignments are due on Monday 31.10.2005 till 4pm.

  • Assignments of 10.11.2005 on LFG and sample answers.

  • Exercise session of 15.11.2005: See Assignments of 10.11.2005.

  • Exercise session of 17.11.2005: Word Order (Warlpiri) in LFG (a hard copy of the assignments and the sample answers are in the folder of the course in the library).

  • Exercise session of 06.12.2005: The assignments and the sample answers on the Head-Complement-Subject Schema for German and Adjectives (HPSG) are in the folder of the course in the library.

  • Assignments of 13.12.2005 on UDCs in HPSG. The assignments are due on Thursday 15.12.2005 till 2pm (bring them with you to the lecture). Sample Answers

  • Exercise session of 12.01.2006: UDCs in LFG. The assignments are due on Tuesday 17.01.2006. Sample answers.

  • Exercise session of 19.01.2006: Anaphoric Binding in HPSG. The assignments are due on Monday 23.01.2006. Sample answers.

  • Exercise session of 07.02.2006: Discussion of the topics of the test exam (of 02.02.2006).

  • Exercise session of 09.02.2006: Assignments on Anaphoric Binding in LFG and sample answers.

    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 08.02.2006)).

    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: Mon Oct 30 14:04:21 CET 2006