Lectures on Constraint-Based Grammar

by Carl Pollard

Book Overview

This collection of previously unpublished or hard-to-find essays traces the evolution from the mid-1980s to the present day of constraint-based grammar formalisms in general and head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) in particular. HPSG is a framework for linguistic theory which is one of the principal competitors to Chomsky's transformational grammar and which is widely regarded as the most influential linguistic framework worldwide in the field...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575862263
• ISBN13: 9781575862262
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 320 Pages