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Keywords: Head‐Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
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Published: 19 August 2010
... Construction Grammar (SBCG) locality HeadDriven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) subcategorization case agreement filler–gap dependencies control idioms context‐free grammar This chapter deals with a number of issues having to do with locality in natural language. Locality of selection...
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Published online: 20 October 2016
Published in print: 25 August 2016
... power of these leading models of syntax Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), and minimalism using a complete set of data on an agreement system from a language that has not hitherto been analysed in these frameworks. A method for comparing syntactic theories...
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Published: 25 August 2016
... theories: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), and Minimalism. The book consists of eight chapters. Chapters 1–4 introduce the phenomenon of agreement in Archi and lay out the limits of the domain of study. Chapters 5–7 each explore...
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Published: 25 August 2016
...In Archi, verbs and other clausal constituents agree with an absolutive argument. Attributive adjectives, demonstratives, and possessive pronouns agree with the head noun in the nominal domain. In Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) the former can be analysed as INDEX agreement...
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Published: 25 August 2016
... of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), and Minimalism exposes the strengths and weaknesses of each theory by comparing their accounts of specific empirical problems. To this end, the behaviour of numeral phrases provides good insight into NP/DP agreement...