| German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Contributor(s): Nerbonne, John (Editor), Netter, Klaus (Editor), Pollard, Carl (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1881526291 ISBN-13: 9781881526292 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: 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, various 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 in "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics" and "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, " both by Pollard and Sag and both available from the University of Chicago Press. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | German - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 435 |
| LCCN: 93040350 |
| Series: Lecture Notes |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.09" W x 9.01" (1.20 lbs) 416 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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, various 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 in Information-Based Syntax and Semantics and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, both by Pollard and Sag and both available from the University of Chicago Press. |
