Richter: Syntax 2, HPSG (SoSe 14)

General Information

• Course description in the Vorlesungsverzeichnis
• Our course meets on Wednesdays, 10:15-11.45, in IG 4.201
  
• Office hour: Wednesday, 15:00-16:00
  
• Email: fr@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
  
• OLAT pages with course material
• Preliminary syllabus (as of April 16th)

Readings

• Robert D. Levine and Walt Detmar Meurers (2006): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Linguistic Approach, Formal Foundations, and Computational Realization. In: Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
• Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag (1994): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, CSLI Standford and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London.
  
• Frank Richter (2006): A Web-based Course in Grammar Formalisms and Parsing.
  (Chapter 4, pp. 233-259: Summary of the signature and theory of Pollard and Sag's grammar)

Online Grammar

• (Partial) implementation of Pollard and Sag's grammar of English in TRALE with web interface

  The page is password protected to limit access to course participants. For practical reasons, there are certain restrictions with respect to the length of queries and the number of parse trees and complexity of AVM embeddings in the web interface:
  There's an upper limit to the length of input strings, and only eight solutions of ambiguous sentences will be shown. The possible depth of embedding in AVMs depends on your particular browser. Beyond that browser-specific depth AVMs cannot be expanded.
  In order to use the web interface, JavaScript must be enabled.