Course Files LG618: Topics in HPSG
This page gives access to information, handouts etc for
LG618: Topics in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Here is a photo of Bob conducting an advertising campaign for the
course,
in the Welsh mountains (on Snowdon)
Here is Bob's review of Levine and Hukari, from JL, in case you are interested
The precise week by week by week breakdown depends on the precise topics
people choose, which can't be determined till after the first couple of
week. So only the first couple of weeks are filled in here.
Please note that the order beyond week 1 is not yet determined.
- (Week 16) Introduction,
(DJA/RB)
- (Week 17) Ginzburg & Sag, Chpt 2, (DJA/RB)
- (Week 18) Ginzburg & Sag, Chpt 2, (DJA/RB)
- (Week 19) Ginzburg & Sag, Chpt 2, (DJA/RB)
- (Week 20) Ginzburg & Sag, Chpt 2, (DJA/RB)
- (Week 21) Feb 24, Bob Borsley on HPSG and Arabic (RB)
- (Week 22) March 3, Abdulrahman Althawb on English auxiliaries (Kim and Sag or Warner) ()
Here is a link to the Kim and Sag Paper
- (Week 23) March 10, Hanan on French auxiliaries (Kim and Sag), and Mansour on unbounded dependencies ()
- (Week 24) March 17, Eiki on Japanese causatives (pdf); Ahmad on
'Persian Object Clitics and the syntax-morphology interface' (Pollet Samvelian,
HPSG 10)? (pdf)
- 25Ahmet (Sozalp) (?)
The emphasis of the course will be on student participation. After a couple of weeks
of general introduction which will be lead by the lectureres, each week will
feature a presentation, usually by a couple of students, of some work relevant to one
of the themes listed below. This will take about one hour, including time for
discussion. A little of the remaining time will usually be taken in explaining any
key ideas that are needed for an understanding of the following week's material.
The students who are making a presentation are responsible for:
- talking to either or both of the lecturers at least two weeks before the
presentation to decide on precisely what material should be presented, and how
(e.g. what the focus should be), and collecting reading material so the lecturers can
arrange for it to be copied;
- deciding on precisely what material the rest of the class should read; this
will be announced the week before the presentation;
- preparing and making a presentation of the key ideas, and leading a discussion
of those ideas;
- often, the presentation will form the basis for the written module assignment,
and perhaps for the MA dissertation (but this is not essential).
It is the responsibility of other students to:
- read all the material presented;
- prepare a discussion (e.g. prepare a list of questions, points for discussion);
- participate in the class discussion.
The idea is that an initial choice of topics will be made in the first week, to be
finalized in the second week, so that student presentations can begin at the latest
in the fourth week.
As a starting point, we will look at the contents of the most recent HPSG
conferences:
Click [HERE]
for a printed copy of the tables of contents from these conferences.
The following is a potential list of topics. PostScript versions of most of the
papers cited can be found on http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/papers/hpsg-topics.
- [Abeillé et al.(1998a)]
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Anne Abeillé, Danièle Godard, Philip H. Miller, and Ivan Sag.
French bounded dependencies.
In Luca Dini and Sergio Balari, editors, Romance in HPSG,
number ?? in CSLI Lecture Notes, page ?? CSLI Publications,
1998a.
URL http://ftp-linguistics.stanford.edu/sag/fbd.3.pdf.
- [Abeillé et al.(1998b)]
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Anne Abeillé, Danièle Godard, and Ivan A. Sag.
Two kinds of composition in French complex predicates.
In Erhard Hinrichs, Andreas Kathol, and Tsuneko Nakazawa, editors,
Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax, volume 30 of Syntax
and Semantics. Academic Press, San Diego, 1998b.
URL http://ftp-linguistics.stanford.edu/sag/two-kinds.pdf.
- [Bender and Kathol(To appear)]
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Emily M. Bender and Andreas Kathol.
Constructional effects of `Just Because...Doesn't Mean...'.
BLS, 27, To appear.
URL http://www-csli.stanford.edu/ bender/publications.html.
- [Bouma et al.(2001)]
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Gosse Bouma, Rob Malouf, and Ivan A. Sag.
Satisfying constraints on extraction and adjunction.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1
(19):1-65, 2001.
URL http://ftp-linguistics.stanford.edu/sag/bms-nllt.pdf.
- [Copestake et al.(2005)]
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Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Carl Pollard, and Ivan A. Sag.
Minimal recursion semantics: an introduction.
Research on Language and Computation, 3(4):
281-332, 2005.
URL http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/copestake.pdf.
- [Donohue and Sag(1999)]
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Cathryn Donohue and Ivan A. Sag.
Domains in Warlpiri.
In Sixth International Conference on HPSG-Abstracts. 04-06
August 1999, pages 101-106, Edinburgh, 1999.
URL http://www-csli.stanford.edu/ sag/papers/warlpiri.ps.
- [Engdahl and Vallduví(1994)]
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Elisabeth Engdahl and Enric Vallduví.
Information packaging and grammar architecture: A constraint-based
approach.
In Elisabeth Engdahl, editor, Integrating information structure
into constraint-based and categorial approaches, pages 39-79. ILLC,
Amsterdam, 1994.
DYANA-2 Report R.1.3.B.
- [Ginzburg and Sag(2001)]
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Jonathan Ginzburg and Ivan A. Sag.
Interrogative Investigations: the form, meaning, and use of
English Interrogatives.
CSLI Publications, Stanford, California, 2001.
URL http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575862786.html.
- [Kathol(1999)]
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Andreas Kathol.
Agreement and the syntax-morphology interface in HPSG.
In Robert Levine and Georgia Green, editors, Studies in Current
Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 223-274. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- [Kathol(2000)]
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Andreas Kathol.
Linear Syntax.
OUP, Oxford, 2000.
- [Kathol et al.(2000)]
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Andreas Kathol, Adam Przepiorkowski, and Jesse Tseng.
Advanced topics in HPSG, 2000.
- [Malouf(2000)]
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Robert Malouf.
A head-driven account of long-distance case assignment.
In Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG, pages 201-214. CSLI
Publications, 2000.
URL http://odur.let.rug.nl/ malouf/papers/case.pdf.
- [Manning and Sag(1999)]
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Christopher D. Manning and Ivan A. Sag.
Dissociations between argument structure and grammatical relations.
In Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic
Explanation. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1999.
URL http://nlp.stanford.edu/ manning/papers/tuebingen97.ps.
- [Miller and Sag(1997)]
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Philip H. Miller and Ivan A. Sag.
French clitic movement without clitics or movement.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 15
(3):573-639, 1997.
URL http://ftp-linguistics.stanford.edu/sag/french-clitic.pdf.
- [Przepiórkowski(1999a)]
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Adam Przepiórkowski.
Case Assignment and the Complement-Adjunct Dichotomy: A
Non-Configurational Constraint-Based Approach.
PhD thesis, Universität Tübingen, nov 1999a.
URL http://ling.osu.edu/ adamp/Dissertation/index.html.
- [Przepiórkowski(1999b)]
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Adam Przepiórkowski.
Negative polarity questions and Italian negative concord.
In Valia Kordoni, editor, Tübingen Studies in Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar, number 132 in Arbeitsberichte des SFB 340, pages
353-400, Tübingen, 1999b. Universität Tübingen.
URL
http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/mmgroup/Papers/1999-nc-italian/index.html.
- [Przepiórkowski(1999c)]
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Adam Przepiórkowski.
Negative polarity questions and Italian negative concord.
In Valia Kordoni, editor, Tübingen Studies in Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar, Arbeitspapiere des
Sonderforschungsbereichs 340 Bericht Nr. 132, Seminar für
Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, 1999c.
URL http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/ adamp/Papers/.
- [Sag(1997)]
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Ivan A. Sag.
English relative clause constructions.
Journal of Linguistics, 33(2):431-484,
1997.
URL http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/rel-pap.pdf.
- [Wechsler and Zlatic(2003)]
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Stephen Wechsler and Larisa Zlatic.
The Many Faces of Agreement.
CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2003.
- [Wilcock(1999)]
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Graham Wilcock.
Lexicalization of context.
In Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol, editors,
Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, pages
373-387. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 1999.
URL http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ gwilcock/Pubs/CSLI-98.ps.
Last updated March 13, 2011
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