Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar

Robert D. Levine (Curatore)

Georgia M. Green (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

This book explores a wide variety of theoretically central issues in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a major theory of syntactic representation, particularly in the domain of natural language computation. HPSG is a strongly lexicon-driven theory, like several others on the scene, but unlike the others it also relies heavily on an explicit assignment of linguistic objects to membership in a hierarchically organised network of types, where constraints associated with any given type are inherited by all of its subtypes. This theoretical architecture allows HPSG considerable flexibility within the confines of a highly restrictive, mathematically explicit formalism, requiring no derivational machinery and invoking only a single level of syntactic representation. The separate chapters consider a variety of problematic phenomena in German, Japanese and English and suggest important extensions of, and revisions to, the picture of HPSG.

• Curatore: Robert D. Levine, Georgia M. Green
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 344 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9780521141093

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