Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

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 kno...

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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.

Preface
Introduction
1. HPSG: A System of Signs
The Structure of Sign
Some Formal Properties of HPSG Feature Structures
The Linguitic Application of Feature Structure Descriptions
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Preface
Introduction
1. HPSG: A System of Signs
The Structure of Sign
Some Formal Properties of HPSG Feature Structures
The Linguitic Application of Feature Structure Descriptions
Phrase Signs and Principles of Universal Grammar
Immediate Dominance Schemata
Determiners, Quantifiers and Quantifier Storage
Possessives
Adjuncts
Conclusion
2. Agreement
Two Views of Agreement
Problems for Derivation-Based Agreement Theories
How Syntactic Is English Agreement?
Agreement In English
Further Issues
Bybrid Agreement
Conclusion
3. Complement Structures
Introduction
Category Selection and Small Clauses
Stowell Structures
Unsaturated Complements
Equi and Raising
Expletive Pronoun Constructions
Raised Expletives
Conclusion
4. Unbounded Dependency Constructions
Introduction
Filler-Gap Constructions
Tough Constructions
The Trace Principle
Parasitic Gaps
More On Island Constraints
Conclusion
5. Relative Clauses
Introduction
English Relative Clauses
Relative-Correlative Constructions
Internally Headed Relative Clauses
Conclusion
6. Binding Theory
Introduction
The Binding Theory of Chomsky 1986a
Problems for Chomsky's Binding Theory
Binding Theory and Expletive Pronouns
The Facts Explained
Nonsyntactic Factors in the Distribution of Exempt Anaphors
Alternatives
Conclusion
7. Complement Control
Introduction
The Semantic Nature of Controller Assignment
The Realization Controllers: Manzini's and Vesser's Generalizations
Complement Coercion
Control Theory and Coerced Complements
Conclusion
8. Aspects of Interpretation
Introduction
Quantificational Content and Nuclear Content
Modifiers Revisited
Contextual information
Some Analytic Alternatives
Conclusion
9. Reflections and Revisions
Introduction
On Borsley's Arguments From English
The SUBJ/COMPS Distinction in the Analysis of Welsh
The Status of Specifiers
Extraction Revisited
Inversion Revisited
Classifying Headed Structures
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index of Names
Index of Languages
Index of Subjects
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