Richter: Lexical Idiosyncrasies in Syntax and Logical Form (SS 05)

Course Description (in German)
Time: Our class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 11ct-13.00.
There is an obligatory counseling slot for the writing of the BA theses. It is Wednesdays, 9ct-11. How this time will be used will be discussed in the first seminar meeting.
Language: The course language will be English or German, depending on the participants.
Office Hour: Mondays, 10.00-11.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)

Grading Policy, Course Readings, etc. (18 April)
Overview of Lexicalized Flexible Ty2 (LF-Ty2) (27 April):
Slides taken from a talk at the University of Jena in January 2005
LF-Ty2 in HPSG (27 April):
Two chapters on the specification of Ty2 and LF-Ty2 in HPSG, taken from Frank Richter (2004): Foundations of Lexical Resource Semantics.
These two chapters summarize Part I of Manfred Sailer's dissertation as far as we need it later in our seminar.
A collection of examples (4 May); and a link to an on-line collection of German cranberry words

Meurers, W. Detmar (2000): Lexical Generalizations in the Syntax of German Non-Finite Constructions. Phil. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Published as: Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 145.
Riehemann, Susanne Z. (2001): A Constructional Approach to Idioms and Word Formation. Phd thesis. Stanford University.
Sailer, Manfred (2003): Combinatorial Semantics and Idiomatic Expressions in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Phil. Dissertation. Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.
Sailer, Manfred (2004): Local Semantics in HPSG. In: O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.). Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5. pp. 197-214.
Soehn, Jan-Philipp (2003): Von Geisterhand zu Potte gekommen. Eine HPSG-Analyse von PPs mit unikaler Komponente. Magisterarbeit. Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.
Soehn, Jan-Philipp and Manfred Sailer (2003): At First Blush on Tenterhooks. About Selectional Restrictions Imposed by Nonheads. In: G. Jäger, P. Monachesi, G. Penn and S. Wintner (eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2003. pp. 149-161.