German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter, and Carl Pollard

These essays apply the syntactic theory of Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag- Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)- to a formal study and analysis of German grammar. A wide variety of fundamental and well-known phenomena in German grammar are addressed, including the German passive and impersonal passive, varius Mittelfeld and Vorfeld word-order phenomena (including auxiliary stacking and the distribution of adjuncts), and the structure of phrasal constituents. linguistic issues include the treatment of idioms, word-order variation and phrase structure constituency, subcategorization, complementation, argument structure, case assignment, lexical rules, and syntactic ambiguity.

The theoretical background for these essays can be found inInformation-Based Syntax and Semantics and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, both by Pollard and Sag and available from the University of Chicago Press.

John Nerbonne is professor of computational linguistics and chair of humanities computing at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Klaus Netter is a computational linguist at the German AI Center in Saarbrucken. Carl Pollard is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Center for the Study of Language and Information- Lecture Notes #46

12/1/93

ISBN (Paperback): 1881526291

ISBN (Cloth): 1881526305

Subject: Linguistics; Germanic Languages--Grammar; Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)