Syntactic Theory (WS 2011/2012)



Start: Thursday 27.10.2011
When: When: Friday 12am-2pm, Exercise: Fri 2-4pm
Where: Lecture in new building, Exercise in Building C 72, Seminarraum 1.12
Consultation-hour: Fridays from 10 to 12
Course Organisation: Professor Daniel Flickinger, Stanford University & PD Dr. Valia Kordoni


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
The lecture is accompanied by exercises. The participation in the lectures and the tutorials/exercises is compulsory.

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