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HPSG

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based grammatical framework developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag in 1987. HPSG represents linguistic information (phonological, syntactic, semantic) in typed feature structures and derives well-formed expressions through constraints on these structures. Unlike movement-based theories, HPSG models word order and long-distance dependencies through feature sharing and principles of grammar. It has been extensively applied to modeling diverse language phenomena and remains influential in computational linguistics.

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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / linguistics
  • Pollard, C., & Sag, I. A. (1994). Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. · URL
  • Sag, I. A., Wasow, T., & Bender, E. M. (2003). Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (2nd ed.). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. · URL
  • Borsley, R. D. (2011). A Grammar of Welsh. Berlin: De Gruyter. · URL
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