Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - Brossura

Pollard, Carl; Sag, Ivan A.

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ISBN 10: 0226674479 ISBN 13: 9780226674476

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Riassunto

This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing.

This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of "understood" subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents. The authors make clear how their approach compares with and improves upon approaches undertaken in other frameworks, including in particular the government-binding theory of Noam Chomsky.

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Book by Pollard Carl Sag Ivan A

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226674479
• ISBN 13: 9780226674476
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 454
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile