Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar最新文献

{"title":"Modeling adnominal possession in multilingual grammar engineering","authors":"Elizabeth K Nielsen, Emily M. Bender","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2018.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2018.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper we describe insights gained from building an extension to the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system to cover adnominal possessive phrases. We show how the wide range of such constructions attested in the world's languages can be handled with the typical major phrase types used in HPSG and discuss the value of feature bundling in the multilingual grammar engineering context.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114554304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plural in lexical resourcesemantics","authors":"D. Lahm","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2018.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2018.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The paper shows how the plural semantic\u0000ideas of (Sternefeld, 1998) can be captured in Lexical Resource\u0000Semantics, a system of underspecied semantics. It is argued that\u0000Sternefeld's original approach, which allows for the unrestricted\u0000insertion of pluralisation into Logical Form, suffers from a problem\u0000originally pointed out by Lasersohn (1989) with respect to the analysis\u0000offered by Gillon (1987). The problem is shown to stem from repeated\u0000pluralisation of the same verbal argument and to be amenable to a\u0000simple solution in the proposed lexical analysis, which allows for\u0000restricting the pluralisations that can be inserted. The paper further\u0000develops an account of maximalisation of pluralities as needed to\u0000obtain the correct readings for sentences with quantiers that are not\u0000upward monotone. Such an account is absent in the orginal system in\u0000(Sternefeld, 1998). The present account makes crucial use of the\u0000possibility to have distinct constituents contribute identical semantic\u0000material offered by LRS and employs it in an analysis of maximalisation\u0000in terms of polyadic quantication.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129465022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"HPSG analysis and computational implementation of Indonesian passives","authors":"David Moeljadi, Francis Bond","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2018.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2018.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study aims to analyze and develop a detailed model of syntax and semantics of passive sentences in standard Indonesian in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) (Pollard & Sag, 1994; Sag et al., 2003) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) (Copestake et al., 2005), explicit enough to be interpreted by a computer, focusing on implementation rather than theory. There are two main types of passive in Indonesian, following Sneddon et al. (2010, pp. 256-260) and Alwi et al. (2014, pp. 352-356), called ‘passive type 1’ (P1) and ‘passive type 2’ (P2). Both types were analyzed and implemented in the Indonesian Resource Grammar (INDRA), a computational grammar for Indonesian (Moeljadi et al., 2015).","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132509090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Partial inversion in English","authors":"P. Kay, Laura A. Michaelis","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A typical\u0000finite clause in English has a single constituent that serves as subject. This constituent precedes\u0000the finite verb in non-inverted clauses like simple declarative clauses, follows the finite verb in\u0000inverted clauses like polar questions, agrees in person and number with the finite verb and with a\u0000tag subject when a tag is present, undergoes subject raising, and so on (Postal 2004). Five\u0000constructions violate these generalizations and in the literature have called into question the\u0000identity of the subject constituent. In each of these five constructions the finite verb agrees with\u0000a following constituent in a declarative clause despite the fact, among others, that the constituent\u0000preceding the verb exhibits subject behaviors of the kind identified by Keenan (1976). To the\u0000authors’ knowledge, despite intensive analysis of several of these patterns, the group as a whole\u0000has not been subject to prior study. The constructions are: Presentational Inversion (e.g., On the\u0000porch stood marble pillars), Presentational there (e.g., The earth was now dry, and there grew a\u0000tree in the middle of the earth, Deictic Inversion (e.g., Here comes the bus), Existential there (e.g.,\u0000There’s a big problem here) and Reversed Specificational be (e.g., The only thing we’ve taken back\u0000recently are plants). The approach of Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2012) enables us to\u0000establish precisely what all five patterns have in common and what is particular to each, revealing\u0000that a constructional, constraint-based approach can extract the correct grammatical\u0000generalizations, not only in ‘core’ areas of a grammar, but also in the hard cases, where concepts\u0000such as subject, which readily handle the more tractable facts, fail to fit the facts at hand. We\u0000see further that the five split-subject patterns, sometimes identified as clausal, yield to a\u0000strictly lexical analysis.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128079948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yucatecan control and lexical categories in SBCG","authors":"M. Dąbkowski","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores the conundrum posed by two different control constructions in Yucatec Maya, a Mayan language spoken by around 800,000 speakers in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. Basic syntactic structure of the language is introduced, and a general SBCG treatment of control in YM is presented, alongside with an example of motion verbs as control matrices. The unruly case of intransitive subjunctive control, where the controllee appears with an unexpected status (incompletive) and without set-A morphology, is discussed and a proposal to treat it as nominalization is evaluated. The nominalization proposal is rejected based on the following grounds: (1) nominalization tends to attract definitive morphology, which is absent from intransitive subjunctive control constructions, (2) nominalization does not truly explain the lack of set-A morphology if one desires to provide a unified account of set-A morphemes, (3) verbs bereft of otherwise expected set-A morphemes have an independent motivation in the form of agent focus constructions.\u0000\u0000The grammar signature is not part of the proceedings but can be downloaded here: grammar signature.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132521483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resumption and case: A new take on Modern Standard Arabic","authors":"Berthold Crysmann","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.7","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few years, there has been renewed interest in the treatment of resumption in HPSG: despite areas of convergence, e.g. the recognition of resumptive dependencies as dependencies, as motivated by Across-the-Board (ATB) extraction, there is no unified theory to date, with differences pertaining, e.g., to the exact formulation of amalgamation (Ginzburg and Sag, 2000), or the place of island constraints in grammar. While Borsley (2010) and Alotaibi and Borsley (2013) relegate the difference in locality of gap and resumptive dependencies to the performance system, Crysmann (2012, 2016) captures insensitivity to strong islands as part of the grammar. Harmonising existing proposals becomes even more acute, if we consider the cross-linguistic similarity of the phenomenon, in particular, if we compare languages like Hausa and Arabic, which both feature island insensitivity to some degree, as well as bound pronominal resumptive objects and zero pronominal resumptive subjects, to name just a few of the parallels. In this paper, I shall reexamine resumption (and extraction) in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth: MSA) and propose a reanalysis that improves on Alotaibi and Borsley (2013) in several areas: first, I shall argue that controlling the distribution of gaps and resumptives by means of case is not only empirically under-motivated but also leads to counter-intuitive constraint specifications in the majority of cases. Second, I shall show that the case-based account of Alotaibi and Borsley (2013) can be straightforwardly supplanted with the weight-based account I proposed in Crysmann (2016): in doing this, one does not only get a better alignment of case assignment constraints with overtly observable manifestations of case, but such an account is also general enough to scale from case languages, such as MSA, to languages without case, such as Hausa, or many Arabic vernaculars. Finally, I shall address case in ATB extraction and propose a refinement of the Coordination Constraint of Pollard and Sag (1994) that accounts for exactly the kind of mismatch observed in mixed gap/resumptive ATB extraction","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127101576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atomistic and holistic exponence in Information-Based Morphology","authors":"Berthold Crysmann, Olivier Bonami","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper we discuss two contrasting views of exponence in inflectional morphology: the atomistic view, where content is associated individually with minimal segmentable morphs, and the\u0000holistic view, where the association is made for the whole word between complex content and constellations of morphs. On the basis of\u0000data from Estonian and Swahili, we argue that an adequate theory of inflection should be able to accomodate both views. We then show that\u0000the framework of Information-based Morphology (Crysmann and Bonami, 2016) is indeed compatible with both views, thanks to relying on realisation rules that associate m units of forms with n units of content.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126101082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agreement and interpretation of binominals in French","authors":"A. An, Abeillé","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper investigates the structure and agreement of coordinated binominals in the form Det N1 et N2 in French. We provide corpus data and experimental data to show that different strategies exist, depending on their readings: singular Det for joint reading (mon collègue et ami, 'my.MSG colleague.MSG and friend.MSG'), plural Det agreement (mes frère et soeur 'my.PL brother.MSG and sister.FSG') or closest conjunct agreement (mon nom et prénom, 'my.MSG surname.MSG and first name.MSG') for split reading. These results challenge previous syntactic analyses of binominals (Le Bruyn and de Swart, 2014), stating that Det combines with N1, forming a DP and the later coordinates with N2. We then propose an HPSG analysis to account for French binominals.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130783617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"English prepositional numeral constructions","authors":"Takafumi Maekawa","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper discusses the syntactic \u0000properties of 'prepositional numeral constructions (PNCs)' in English, \u0000which is exemplified by ‘about 250 babies’ and ‘over 16,000 animals’. In \u0000PNCs a preposition is followed by a numeral. Previous analyses have \u0000claimed that the preposition and the numeral make a prepositional phrase \u0000in PNCs, but we argue that this is not a satisfactory approach. In HPSG \u0000there are some possible analyses that might be proposed, but there are \u0000reasons for supposing that the best analysis is one in which the \u0000preposition is a functor, a non-head selecting a numeral head.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121254722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Against split morphology","authors":"Robert Hepburn-Gray","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2017.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2017.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper I present data from several Niger Congo languages, illustrating how the paradigms which make up the noun class systems of these languages are problematic to analyze within traditional morphosyntactic frameworks. I outline possible solutions to this problem, and argue for the introduction of an exemplar based Word and Paradigm (Blevins 2006) approach to morphology within SBCG. I then outline the consequences of this approach for the structure of the SBCG lexicon.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121674576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}