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The topic of this course is constraint-based grammar. In constraint-based grammar formalisms, phrase-structure rules are not regarded as rules for the production of the well-formed sentences of a language, but as constraints on well-formed linguistic structures. Furthermore, the rules are augmented with feature structures (pairs of attributes and their values, e.g., ‘singular' and ‘plural' for number). These two moves yield a very powerful and flexible formalism, which allows a succinct representation of even complex linguistic facts. The course will be based on the textbook Syntactic theory by Ivan Sag et al. (2003, 2nd ed.). Familiarity with phrase-structure grammar is presupposed. |
