Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).


Contents:

Basic properties and elements
Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley

The evolution of HPSG
Dan Flickinger, Carl Pollard, Tom Wasow

Formal background
Frank Richter

The nature and role of the lexicon in HPSG
Anthony Davis, Jean-Pierre Koenig

HPSG in understudied languages
Douglas L Ball

Agreement
Stephen Wechsler

Case
Adam Przepiórkowski

Nominal structures
Frank Van Eynde

Argument structure and linking
Anthony Davis, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Stephen Wechsler

Constituent order
Stefan Müller

Complex predicates
Danièle Godard, Pollet Samvelian

Control and raising
Anne Abeillé

Unbounded dependencies
Robert D. Borsley, Berthold Crysmann

Relative Clauses in HPSG
Doug Arnold, Danièle Godard

Island phenomena and related matters
Rui Chaves

Coordination
Anne Abeillé, Rui Chaves

Idioms
Manfred Sailer

Negation
Jong-Bok Kim

Ellipsis
Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim

Anaphoric binding
Stefan Müller

Morphology
Berthold Crysmann

Semantics
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Frank Richter

Information structure
Kordula de Kuthy

Processing
Tom Wasow

Computational linguistics and grammar engineering
Emily M Bender, Guy Emerson

Grammar in dialogue
Andy Lücking, Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper

Gesture
Andy Lücking

HPSG and Minimalism
Robert D. Borsley, Stefan Müller

HPSG and Categorial Grammar
Yusuke Kubota

HPSG and Lexical Functional Grammar
Stephen Wechsler, Ash Asudeh

HPSG and Dependency Grammar
Richard Hudson

HPSG and Construction Grammar
Stefan Müller