{"title":"Preliminary results from the Free Linguistic Environment project","authors":"D. Cavar, Lwin Moe, Hai Hu, K. Steimel","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Free Linguistic Environment (FLE) project focuses on the\u0000development of an open and free library of natural language processing\u0000functions and a grammar engineering platform for Lexical Functional\u0000Grammar (LFG) and related grammar frameworks. In its present state the\u0000code-base of FLE contains basic essential elements for LFG-parsing. It\u0000uses finite-state-based morphological analyzers and syntactic\u0000unification parsers to generate parse-trees and related functional\u0000representations for input sentences based on a grammar. It can\u0000process a variety of grammar formalisms, which can be used\u0000independently or serve as backbones for the LFG parser. Among the\u0000supported formalisms are Context-free Grammars (CFG), Probabilistic\u0000Contextfree Grammars (PCFG), and all formal grammar components of the\u0000XLEgrammar formalism. The current implementation of the LFG-parser\u0000includes the possibility to use a PCFG backbone to model probabilistic\u0000c-structures. It also includes f-structure representations that allow\u0000for the specification or calculation of probabilities for complete\u0000f-structure representations, as well as for sub-paths in f-structure\u0000trees. Given these design features, FLE enables various forms of\u0000probabilistic modeling of c-structures and f-structures for input or\u0000output sentences that go beyond the capabilities of other technologies\u0000based on the LFG framework.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806025","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":"Externally and internally headed relative clauses in Marori","authors":"I. Arka","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper discusses relative clauses (RCs) in Marori,\u0000showing that this language unusually has almost all of relative clause\u0000types, from headed/headless, externally/internally headed,\u0000single-/double-headed, to pre-/post-head, to attached/detached\u0000RCs. Special attention is given to internally headed relative clauses\u0000(IHRC). It is argued that Marori IHRCs are of the restrictive or\u0000non-maximalising type, which accounts for certain intriguing\u0000properties, such as their indefiniteness constraints and the\u0000possibility for RC stacking.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122290641","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":"The prepositional passive in Lexical Functional Grammar","authors":"J. Findlay","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The aim of this\u0000paper is to provide an adequate analysis in LFG of the prepositional\u0000passive, e.g. That problem has been dealt with, My pen has been written\u0000with. This construction has been examined in LFG before by Bresnan\u0000(1982), Lødrup (1991), and Alsina (2009), but empirical and\u0000theoretical problems, some well-documented, some new, mean that such\u0000proposals cannot be maintained. Instead, I offer an account couched in\u0000recent work on the mapping between grammatical functions and arguments\u0000(Asudeh et al., 2014; Findlay, 2014a) that treats the defining\u0000characteristic of the prepositional passive not as purely syntactic,\u0000but rather as being located at the interface between syntax and\u0000semantics.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127145750","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":"On pseudo-non-finite clauses in Welsh","authors":"Olivier Bonami, R. Borsley, M. Tallerman","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Languages differ in how they employ finite and non-finite\u0000clauses. Welsh finite and non-finite clauses have a similar\u0000distribution to their counterparts in English. However, it doesn’t\u0000look like this because Welsh has certain finite clauses which look\u0000rather like non-finite clauses. We examine two types of\u0000pseudo-non-finite clauses: finite \"bod\" clauses and finite \"i\"\u0000clauses. We argue that both cases are instances of a mismatch between\u0000syntax and morphology, while the latter only involves periphrasis. We\u0000provide an HPSG analysis capturing similarities and differences\u0000between these two constructions and canonical finite and nonfinite\u0000clauses.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"28 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132148182","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":"Refining the semantics of lexical rules in HPSG","authors":"D. Lahm","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.19","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper points out\u0000certain flaws in the semantics for lexical rule specifications\u0000developed in Meurers (2001). Under certain circumstances, certain\u0000words may not be licit inputs to a rule according to this semantics\u0000while one would expect them to be from inspecting the specification of\u0000the rule. The reasons for this are shown to be that whether properties\u0000of paths should be transferred from the input of a rule to its output\u0000is decided considering only the respective paths and their properties\u0000in isolation, ignoring the ‘non-local’ effects that transferring their\u0000properties can have. Furthermore, the semantics is insensitive to the\u0000possible shapes of inputs to the rule, which also makes it possible\u0000that inputs of certain shapes are unexpectedly not accepted. An\u0000alternative semantics is developed that does not suffer from these\u0000deficits.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115129907","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":"An underspecification approach to Hausa resumption","authors":"Berthold Crysmann","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Within recent work on the treatment of resumption\u0000in HPSG, there is growing consensus that resumptive unbounded\u0000dependency constructions (=UDCs) should be modelled on a par with\u0000gap-type UDCs (Alotaibi and Borsley, 2013; Borsley, 2010; Crysmann,\u00002012b; Taghvaipour, 2005), using a single feature for both types of\u0000dependencies, rather than separate features, as proposed by Vaillette\u0000(2001a,b). Yet, authors disagree as to where exactly in the grammar\u0000the resumptive function of pronominals should be established: while\u0000Crysmann (2012b, 2015) advances an ambiguity approach that has\u0000pronominal synsem objects being ambiguous between a resumptive and an\u0000ordinary pronoun use, Borsley (2010); Alotaibi and Borsley (2013), by\u0000contrast, treat all pronominals, resumptive or not, as ordinary\u0000pronouns and effect their resumptive use by means of tailoring the\u0000amalgamation principle to potentially include pronominal\u0000indices. While their decision provides a straightforward account of\u0000McCloskey’s generalisation that resumptives always look like the\u0000ordinary pronouns of the language, it fails to capture the difference\u0000in semantics between ordinary pronominal and resumptive uses. In this\u0000paper, I shall reexamine the evidence from Hausa and propose to\u0000synthesise the approaches put forth by Alotaibi and Borsley (2013) and\u0000Crysmann (2012b), and propose that the potential for pronominal and\u0000resumptive function (including their difference w.r.t. semantics and\u0000non-local features) is captured by means of underspecification, yet\u0000the decision as to canonical vs. non-canonical use is made at the\u0000level of the governing head (Borsley, 2010; Alotaibi and Borsley,\u00002013). I shall argue that this division of labour is sufficient to\u0000derive the correct gap-like semantics for resumptives, maintains\u0000standard deterministic amalgamation, and, finally, provides an answer\u0000to McCloskey’s generalisation.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121991868","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}
Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik, S. Wintner
{"title":"Reference patterns in subjunctive complement clauses of Modern Standard Arabic","authors":"Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik, S. Wintner","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate the status of control constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). MSA has several embedded clause constructions, some of which resemble control in English (and other languages). However, these constructions exhibit some notable differences. Chief among them is the fact that the embedded verb carries agreement features that can indicate both coreference and disjoint reference between a matrix argument and the understood subject of the complement clause. We conducted a thorough corpus-based investigation of such constructions, with a special focus on a search for obligatory control in the language. We show that our findings contradict accepted generalizations (and predictions) proposed by state-of-the-art theories of control, as they indicate that there are no \"real\" control predicates in MSA. We outline an HPSG analysis that accounts for the MSA data.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133453811","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":"Seminumerals, determiners and nouns in English","authors":"Takafumi Maekawa","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.22","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A singular countable noun in\u0000English normally requires a determiner and they should agree in\u0000number. However, there is a type of noun phrase, such as those\u0000thousand teachers, which does not conform to this generalisation. As\u0000a subtype of singular countable noun, thousand requires a\u0000determiner, but the determiner has number agreement with the head\u0000noun teachers. The standard HPSG treatment, in which the determiner\u0000requirement and the determiner-noun agreement are both represented in\u0000the SPR specifications of the head noun, cannot capture this special\u0000agreement pattern. Our analysis, in which the determiner requirement\u0000and the determiner-noun agreement are dissociated from each other,\u0000can provide a straightforward account of the data.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122315417","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":"How not to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in LFG","authors":"A. Przepiórkowski","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.29","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The paper briefly reexamines arguments for the argument–adjunct\u0000dichotomy, commonly assumed in contemporary linguistics, showing that\u0000they do not stand up to scrutiny. It demonstrates that – perhaps\u0000surprisingly – LFG currently only assumes this dichotomy in its\u0000f-structure feature geometry, and does not rely on it in any crucial\u0000way. Building on this observation, the paper presents a way of getting\u0000rid of this dichotomy altogether.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127382924","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}
M. Butt, Sebastian Sulger, Mutee U. Rahman, Tafseer Ahmed
{"title":"Adverb agreement in Urdu, Sindhi and Punjabi","authors":"M. Butt, Sebastian Sulger, Mutee U. Rahman, Tafseer Ahmed","doi":"10.21248/hpsg.2016.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000We discuss agreeing adverbs in Urdu, Sindhi and\u0000Punjabi. We adduce crosslinguistic evidence that is based mainly on\u0000similar patterns in Romance and posit that there is a close connection\u0000between resultatives and so-called pseudo-resultatives, which the\u0000agreeing adverbs appear to instantiate. We propose a diachronic\u0000relationship by which the originally predicative part of a resultative\u0000is reinterpreted as an adjunct that modifies the overall event\u0000predication, not just the result.","PeriodicalId":388937,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar","volume":"486 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115296556","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}