Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar

Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Ivan A. Sag

Harvard University Press, 1985 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 276 pages

Contents

A theory of syntactic features		17
The nature of grammatical rules		43
Metarules and their properties		57
Universal feature instantiation principles		75
The Foot Feature Principle		79
The Control Agreement Principle		83
The Head Feature Convention		94
Tree admissibility		99
Parasitic gaps	162
The syntax of coordination	169
Rule schemata	170
Conjuncts as heads	174
Across the board phenomena	176
Preliminaries to semantic interpretation	182
Types	184
Nonlexical type assignments	188

The constituent structure of English	109
Verb phrases	110
Adjective phrases	122
Noun phrases	126
Prepositional phrases	131
The analysis of unbounded dependencies	137
The percolation of slash features	139
Slash termination Metarule 1	142
Topicalization	144
Missingobject constructions	150
WH constructions	153
clefts	158
Slash termination Metarule 2	160
Lexical type assignments		194
Grammatical relations		195
Obligatory control		200
General principles of semantic interpretation		206
Functional realization		209
The semantic interpretation schema		211
Lexical interpretation		214
Feature translation		223
Unbounded dependency semantics		229
List of features and rules		245
Name index		267
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