LSA.111 | HPSG

Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, Emily M. Bender
TR 1:00-2:40
location: 32-141
course web site: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/05inst

This course presents a systematic introduction to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - a precisely formalized framework for grammatical analysis, whose `bare' phrase structures and constraint-based architecture fit particularly well with current research in human sentence processing and language learning. HPSG has not only provided interesting hypotheses about the nature of Universal Grammar, but also has led to the development of rapidly extensible, large-scale, internally consistent analyses of key problems in syntax, lexicon, and the syntax-semantics interface. Although this course will focus on English grammar and more general theoretical issues, HPSG has played/is currently playing a significant role in the development of language-processing technology.

Prerequisites: some familiarity with generative grammar.

Required Textbook
Title: Syntactic Theory: a formal introduction
Author: Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, Emily M. Bender
Publisher: CSLI Publications / 2nd edition
ISBN: 1-57586-400-2