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This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing. This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of understood subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents.

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Preface 1 Introduction 2 Agreement 3 Complement Structures 4 Unbound Dependency Constructions 5 Relative Clauses 6 Binding Theory 7 Complement Control 8 Aspects of Interpretation

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 August 1994
      ISBN-13 9780226674469
      978-0226674469
      ISBN-10 0226674460
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      Grammar, syntax and morphology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of cognitive science, drawing on results from diverse approaches to syntactic theory, situation semantics, data type theory, and knowledge representation. The result is a conception of grammar as a set of declarative and order-independent constraints, a conception well suited to modelling human language processing. This self-contained volume demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems, including a number which have occupied center-stage within syntactic theory for well over twenty years: the control of understood subjects, long-distance dependencies conventionally treated in terms of wh-movement, and syntactic constraints on the relationship between various kinds of pronouns and their antecedents.

      Table of Contents
      Preface 1 Introduction 2 Agreement 3 Complement Structures 4 Unbound Dependency Constructions 5 Relative Clauses 6 Binding Theory 7 Complement Control 8 Aspects of Interpretation

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