Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
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Remarks on locality
Get PDFThis paper proposes a modification of HPSG theory—Sign-Based Construction Grammar—that
incorporates a strong theory of both selectional and constructional locality. A number of
empirical phenomena that give the appearance of requiring nonlocal constraints are given a
principled, localist analysis consistent with this general approach, which incorporates certain
insights from work in the tradition of Berkeley Construction Grammar, as exemplified by Fillmore
et al. (1988), Kay and Fillmore (1999), and related work
Integrating linguistic dimensions: The scope of adverbs
Get PDFThree distinctions seem relevant for the scope properties of adverbs: their function (adjuncts
or complements), their prosody (incidental or integrated) and their lexical semantics (parenthetical
or non parenthetical). We propose an analysis in which the scope of French adverbs is aligned with
their syntactic properties, relying on a view of adjuncts as loci for quantification, a
linearization approach to the word order, and an explicit modelling of dialogue
A lexical account of Sorani Kurdish prepositions
Get PDFIn Sorani Kurdish dialects, the complement of a preposition can generally be realized either as a
syntactic item (NP, independent pronoun or PP) or a bound personal morpheme (clitic/affix). However,
the affixal realization of the complement gives rise to a range of specific phenomena. First, some
prepositions display two different phonological forms depending on the realization of their
complement: the variant combining with a syntactic item is referred to as ˋsimple\u27, while the
variant combining with an affixal complement is called ˋabsolute\u27. Furthermore, unlike syntactic
complements, which are always realized locally, the affixal complement of an absolute preposition
can have a non-local realization, attaching to a host with which it has no morphosyntactic
relations. In order to deal with these facts, this paper proposes a classification of Sorani
prepositions along two lines: the affixal versus non-affixal realization of the complement on the
one hand and its local versus non-local realization on the other hand. All cases of non-local
realization receive a lexical account, either in terms of argument composition or in terms of
linearization constraints on domain objects
Syntax and semantics of Korean numeral classifier constructions
Get PDFThe so-called floating quantifier constructions in languages like
Korean display intriguing properties whose successful processing can
prove the robustness of a parsing system. This paper shows that a
constraint-based analysis, in particular couched upon the framework
of HPSG, can offer us an efficient way of analyzing these
constructions together with proper semantic representations. It also
shows how the analysis has been successfully implemented in the LKB
(Linguistic Knowledge Building) system
Constructing Spanish complex predicates
Get PDFAbeillé and Godard (2007) describe a variety of Spanish whose complex predicates differ structurally
from the more familiar flat VP type of complex predicate common to other varieties of Spanish and
Romance. I present a verb cluster analysis of this variety which both captures these structural
differences, and at the same time preserves those features that are common across both construction
types. Coupled with a simple morphological treatment of affixation, this analysis predicts the range
of \u27clitic climbing\u27 facts. The parsimony of the affixation analysis is afforded by an alternative
approach to the constraints on reflexive affix distribution in Spanish complex predicates. I depart
radically from previous morpho-lexical approaches to the phenomenon, instead showing how the
constraints follow from independently motivated binding principles. This approach not only handles
more of the Spanish data, but also has the potential to provide a unified account of the phenomenon
across Romance
Type hierarchies for passive forms in Korean
Get PDFThis paper aims to provide type hierarchies for Korean passive constructions on the basis of their
forms within the HPSG framework. The type hierarchies proposed in this paper are based on the
classification of Korean passives; suffixal passives, auxiliary passives, inherent passives, and
passive light verb constructions. Verbs are divided into five subtypes in accordance with the
possibility of passivization. We also provide type hierarchies for verbal nouns and passive light
verbs
Evidence for the linearization-based theory of semantic composition
Get PDFThe result of questionnaire studies are presented which shows
(i) that conjuncts are scope islands in Japanese and (ii) that left-node
raising can nullify such scope islands. This finding confirms the theory
advanced in Yatabe (2001), in which semantic composition is
almost entirely carried out within order domains, and arguably contradicts
the theory proposed in Beavers and Sag (2004), which introduces a mechanism
called Optional Quantifier Merger to deal with the fact that right-node raising
and left-node raising can have semantic effects
Phrasal or lexical constructions? Some comments on underspecification of constituent order, compositionality, and control
Get PDFThis paper is a follow up on Müller, 2006. It contains some
comments on suggestions about the interaction of phrasal Constructions with constituent order that
Adele Goldberg made at various occasions. In addition the paper discusses various HPSG analyses of
particle verbs that assume lexical representations including phonologically specified parts of
particle verb lexical entries. A recent phrasal analysis of resultatives (Haugereid, 2007) is
discussed as well and it is pointed out that control constructions pose problems for phrasal
analyses that do not assume empty elements but require that the subject is realized in a phrasal
configuration
Two types of multiple nominative construction: A constructional approach
Get PDFMultiple nominative constructions (MNCs) in Korean have two main sub-
types: possessive and adjunct types. This paper shows that a grammar allow-
ing the interaction of declarative constraints on types of signs - in particular,
having constructions (phrases and clauses) - can provide a robust and efficient way of encoding generalizations for two different MNCs. The feasibility of the grammar developed here has been checked with its implementation
into the LKB (Linguistic Knowledge Building) syste
Decomposed phrasal constructions
Get PDFIn this paper I suggest an interface level of semantic representations, that on the one hand
corresponds to morpho-syntactic entities such as phrase structure rules, function words and
inflections, and that on the other hand can be mapped to lexical semantic representations that one
ultimately needs in order to give good predictions about argument frames of lexical items. This
interface level consists of basic constructions that can be decomposed into five sub-constructions
(arg1-role, arg2-role ... arg5-role). I argue in favour of phrasal constructions
in order to account for altering argument frames and maybe also coercion without having to use
lexical rules or multiple lexical entries