SYNTAX WITHOUT TRANSFORMATIONS

PREREQUISITES:

Úvod do unifikačních gramatik - Introduction to unification grammars

suggestion for those interested in formal linguistic theories (can be taken in parallel, only in the summer semester):

• Lexikálně funkční gramatika (Lexical Functional Grammar, also follows Úvod do unifikačních gramatik - Introduction to unification grammars)
• Deklarativní popis češtiny I (Declarative description of Czech) or Deklarativní popis češtiny II (an introduction to HPSG from the linguistic perspective, with a stress on specific language phenomena, only a small overlap with the present course)

SYLLABUS:

1. Introduction: the merits of constraint-based grammar formalisms for theoretical linguistics and natural language processing, an overview of assumptions
2. A comparison of constraint-based linguistic theories: GPSG, LFG, CUG, HPSG
3. Formalisms for HPSG and their possibilities, RSRL
4. Solutions proposed within HPSG to some linguistic phenomena: valence, agreement, modification by adjuncts, function words, syntactic control, unbounded dependencies, inflection and derivation, word order, topic-focus articulation, binding, semantic interpretation; comparison to solutions proposed within alternative theories
5. Methods of implementation, grammar writing in systems Attribute-Logic Engine (ALE), ConTroll, LKB, TRA LE
   Alexandr Rosen
   2003-05-21