Meurers, and T. Nakazawa, eds., Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German { An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation, Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, pages 1-46. Tubingen: Universit at Tubingen. Kathol, A. 1995. Linearization-Based German Syntax . Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....the antecedent for the adjunct treatment. kinds of adjuncts. A more elaborate theory of adjunct realization will have to restrict the subclass of adjuncts which are intended to construct as dependents and which are not. 11 The description level formalization of lexical rules provided in Meurers (1995, 1999b) readily supports such a revision. From Argument Raising to Dependent Raising 11 Askedal (1989) shows, however, that in addition to the verbal heads generally discussed, certain adjectival elements can also occur as heads in a head cluster. 12 To extend the coverage of our ....

Meurers, and T. Nakazawa, eds., Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German { An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation, Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, pages 1-46. Tubingen: Universit at Tubingen. Kathol, A. 1995. Linearization-Based German Syntax . Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

....underspecified. Without further constraints illformed signs are admitted by the grammar. The trace can be combined with determiners and other material that can never be complements of a verb. For a bottom up parser the search space will be huge. 2.3 The Predicate Complex 2.3. 1 Flat Structures Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994, p. 11) assume a rule for the predicate complex that is similar to the following rule. 7) H[SC ] H, C , VC This rule is an abbreviation of a set of rules (see section 3.1.2 below) The C stands for a set of at least one non verbal complement. The VC stands for a verbal complex that ....

Hinrichs, Erhard W. and Nakazawa, Tsuneko. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German---An HPSG Analysis.

....for a verbal complement plus those arguments of that verbal complement which have not yet been saturated. As a result, the lexical entry of the auxiliary subcategorizes for an underspecified number of arguments. If the raised arguments have to obey grammar constraints, e.g. in the theory of Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) they are required to be non verbal signs, this results in an infinite number of solutions to the query for such a lexical entry. The reason is that the constraints enforced by the theory need to be checked on each member of the subcategorization list, and the list is of underspecified length. The ....

.... described has has been fully implemented as part of the ConTroll system (Gotz et al. 1997) So far it has been tested with two complex hpsg grammars for German: one implementing the theory proposed in Pollard (1990) and the other focusing on the phenomena of aux flip and PVP topicalization Hinrichs and Nakazawa 1989, 1994. Lazy evaluation for these grammars led to efficiency gains of up to 30 compared to the non lazy approach described in Gotz and Meurers (1995) ....

Hinrichs, Erhard W., and Tsuneko Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German - An HPSG Analysis. In: Erhard W. Hinrichs, W.

....15 The valence requirement is token identical to (part of) the realized argument, i.e. it points to the same object. 16 Note that nothing ensures that the synsem object on the valence attribute of a word is part of a grammatical sign at all. 17 As an alternative to the standard HPSG setup, Hinrichs Nakazawa (1994) propose to represent and identify the entire sign value of each argument. In their setup, looking at a single word at the leaf of a tree therefore reveals all information about the word and all its arguments. To a large degree this eliminates the distinction between a lexical and a syntactic ....

Hinrichs, E. W. & Nakazawa, T., 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis. In Hinrichs et al. (1994), pp. 1--46.

.... The split NP (or split topicalization) construction (henceforth SNP) of German has received much attention in the literature, as a challenge for syntactic accounts of argument selection and of unbounded dependency constructions (Bayer 1987; van Riemsdijk 1989; Fanselow 1988, 1993; Haider 1990; Hinrichs Nakazawa 1994) and in the discussion of the semantic status of indefinites (Diesing 1992; van Geenhoven 1996) In this construction, the descriptive material about one underlying argument is not confined to a single NP as normal, but is split over two nominal constituents: 1) Bcher sieht Anna drei Books ....

....of coindexation. Van Geenhoven (1996) assumes both parts of SNP to be base generated in the Mittelfeld as indefinites of the semantic type of a property; the referent that they restrict and that fills the argument slot is provided lexically by the verb, i.e. the NPs are semantically incorporated. Hinrichs Nakazawa (1994) propose a lexical rule based analysis in Head Driven Phrase Structure 1. Jackendoff (1990: sec. 3.1) discusses two ways in which the theta criterion is empirically inadequate: i) there are cases where an NP has more than one theta role, and (ii) there are cases where multiple NPs hold a single ....

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HINRICHS, ERHARD and TSUNEKO NAKAZAWA. 1994. Partial VP and Split NP topicalization in German: an HPSG analysis. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitt Tbingen.

....(Reyle 1993) 1) a. a former professor in Tubingen former(in Tubingen(professor) in Tubingen(former(professor) b. every professor didn t answer every professor(not(answer) not(every professor(answer) While HPSG is frequently used for the implementation of natural language fragments ((Hinrichs, Meurers and Nakazawa 1994), Keller 1994) Frank 1994) the main focus of research in the HPSG framework has been on syntactic phenomena; and the semantic concepts traditionally appealed to have been borrowed from situation semantics (Pollard and 1 Sag 1987) Pollard and Sag 1994) Since HPSG is widely used as a basis ....

Hinrichs, E., Meurers, D. and Nakazawa, T.: 1994, Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German --- An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation, Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 58, Universitat Tubingen.

....structures, i.e. to ensure that feature structures are extendible to maximally specific well typed feature structures. 3 This introduction of disjunctions may, in the worst case, exponentially increase the size of the grammar. Practical experience with hpsg grammars on the Troll system ( 9] [15]) has shown, however, that feature structure compaction techniques can be used to keep this increase reasonably small. In x3, I discuss how these techniques can be incorporated into a term unification approach. In x3.1, I discuss the technique of unextension, which involves replacing disjunctions ....

Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa. Partial-vp and split-np topicalization in german -- an hpsg anaylsis and it's implementation. Technical Report 58, SFB 340, 1994. Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen fur die Computerlinguistik.

....a philosophical point of view, there also are some advantages to encoding lexical rules as types. First of all such an encoding allows us to hierarchically organize lexical rules, which makes it possible to express generalizations over groups of lexical rules in a straightforward way. For example, Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) say that the Partial VP Topicalization Lexical Rule, the Split NP Topicalization Lexical Rule, and the Split NP Topicalization Lexical Rule 2 share a common mechanism. However, without a possibility to hierarchically group lexical rules and formulate constraints on these groups, they are unable ....

Hinrichs, Erhard and Tsuneko Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP topicalization in German: An HPSG analysis. In (Hinrichs, Meurers, and Nakazawa, 1994).

.... The split NP (or split topicalization) construction (henceforth SNP) of German has received much attention in the literature, as a challenge for syntactic accounts of argument selection and of unbounded dependency constructions (Bayer, 1987; van Riemsdijk, 1989; Fanselow, 1988, 1993; Haider, 1990; Hinrichs and Nakazawa, 1994) and in the discussion of the semantic status of indefinites (Diesing, 1992; van Geenhoven, 1996) In this construction, the descriptive material about one underlying argument is not confined to a single NP as normal, but is split over two nominal constituents: 1) Bucher Books sieht sees ....

....Van Geenhoven (1996) assumes both parts of SNP to be base generated in the Mittelfeld as indefinites of the semantic type of a property; the referent that they restrict and that fills the argument slot is provided lexically by the verb, i.e. the NPs are semantically incorporated. 2 Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) propose an analysis in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) positing a construction specific lexical rule. I d like to argue that all these account make unnecessary assumptions of some extra devices to deal with SNP and fail to explain the striking parallelism of the Mittelfeld NP and ....

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Hinrichs, E. W. and Nakazawa, T. (1994). Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitat Tubingen.

.... split NP (or split topicalization) construction henceforth SNP of German has received much attention in the literature, as a challenge for syntactic accounts of argument selection and of unbounded dependency constructions (Bayer, 1987; van Riemsdijk, 1989; Fanselow, 1988; 1993; Haider, 1990; Hinrichs Nakazawa 1994) and in the discussion of the semantic status of indefinites (Diesing, 1992; van Geenhoven, 1996) In this construction, the descriptive material about one underlying argument is not confined to a single NP as normal, but is split over two nominal constituents: 1) B cher sieht Anna drei Books ....

....any other symbol (Kaplan Bresnan, 1995: p. 77ff) Doubling of a function as in the ungrammatical example (10) is thus ruled out. 10 It would be certainly possible to explicitly stipulate restrictions on the rules that ensure the empirical generalization similarly as in the lexical rule of (Hinrichs Nakazawa, 1994) but as will be shown, these restrictions follow from independent properties of the elements involved. Jonas Kuhn (10) den Peter sieht der Karl den Peter. the.ACC Peter sees the.NOM Karl the.ACC Peter . NP . NP ( obj) # ( obj) # DET N DET N ( pred) Peter 27 ....

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HINRICHS, E. W. and NAKAZAWA, T. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universität Tübingen.

.... NP (or split topicalization) construction of German (henceforth SNP) has received much attention in the literature, as a challenge for syntactic accounts of argument selection and of unbounded dependency constructions (Bayer 1987; van Riemsdijk 1989; Fanselow 1988; Fanselow 1993; Haider 1990; Hinrichs and Nakazawa 1994) and in the discussion of the semantic status of inde nites (Diesing 1992; van Geenhoven 1996) 1 In this construction, the descriptive material about one underlying argument is not con ned to a single NP as normal, but is spread over two nominal constituents: 1.1) B#cher books sieht sees ....

....topic position. Van Geenhoven (1996) assumes both parts of SNP to be base generated in the Mittelfeld as inde nites of the semantic type of a property; the referent that they restrict and that lls the argument slot is provided lexically by the verb, i.e. the NPs are isemantically incorporatedj. Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) propose an analysis in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) positing a construction speci c lexical rule. I d like to argue that these accounts make unnecessary assumptions of some extra devices to deal with SNP and or fail to explain the striking 2 Jackendooe (1990, sec. 3.1) discusses ....

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Hinrichs, E. W. and T. Nakazawa (1994). Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German An HPSG Analysis. Universit#t T#bingen: Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58.

....in any detail. The section can be understood without an exact knowledge of the linguistic theories involved if one accepts the claims made during the discussion, but for a complete understanding of the details involved, we assume some knowledge of the analysis of partial verb phrases in German by Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1993), on word order in German by Lenerz (1977) and the empirical analyses by Richter and Sailer (1995) 6 Some data on word order in German sentences seem to suggest that there exists a connection between the main verb and the order of its complements. The example sentences in 1 do indicate the ....

....be formulated since it suffices to know that one has to exist. We do give a sketch for a parse tree for one of the example sentences in figure 5; V a stands for an auxiliary verb, Vm for the main verb and V k for a verbal complex. This parse tree relies on the analysis of German verb phrases in Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1993). S VP V k NP V a NP NP Vm V a Karl wird dem Kind das Geschenk geben wollen Figure 5: A sketched parse tree for the sentence Karl wird dem Kind das Geschenk geben wollen. As one can see, the NP complements are not in one local tree with the main verb due to the necessary argument raising induced ....

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Hinrichs, Erhard W. and Nakazawa, Tsuneko (1993). Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German - An HPSG Analysis -, Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Universitat Tubingen.

....15 The valence requirement is token identical to (part of) the realized argument, i.e. it points to the same object. 16 Note that nothing ensures that the synsem object on the valence attribute of a word is part of a grammatical sign at all. 17 As an alternative to the standard HPSG setup, Hinrichs Nakazawa (1994) propose to represent and identify the entire sign value of each argument. In their setup, looking at a single word at the leaf of a tree therefore reveals all information about the word and all its arguments. To a large degree this eliminates the distinction between a lexical and a syntactic ....

Hinrichs, E. W., Meurers, W. D. & Nakazawa, T. (eds.), 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation. No. 58 in Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340. T ubingen: Universit at T ubingen.

.... program transformation techniques on the definite clause encoding resulting from the lexical rule compiler (Meurers and Minnen, 1996) The relation between parsing times with the expanded (exp) the covariation (cov) and the constraint propagated covariation (opt) lexicon for a German hpsg grammar (Hinrichs, Meurers, and Nakazawa, 1994) can be represented as opt : exp : cov = 0.75 : 1 : 18. Thus, the lexical rule compiler results not only in a compact representation but also in more efficient processing of a lexicon including lexical rules. 4.2 Incremental compilation and global grammar optimization To keep development cycles ....

Hinrichs, Erhard, Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP topicalization in German --- An HPSG analysis and its implementation. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitat Tubingen.

....is explored from a linguistic point of view. The grammar implemented covers the phenomena of aux flip and partial verb phrase topicalization in the three sentence types of German: verb first, verb second, and verb last. It closely follows the analyses proposed in Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1991) and Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) (henceforth HN) except for a few cases noted in section 5. The implementation is based on two systems: Bob Carpenter and Gerald Penn s ALE, and the Troll system developed by Dale Gerdemann and Thilo Gotz based on a logic by Paul King. The discussion of computational architectures in this paper ....

Hinrichs, E. W., and T. Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German - An HPSG Analysis. In: Erhard W. Hinrichs, W. Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa: Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitat Tubingen.

....topicalized which are licensed with the help of special processes like reanalysis (Fanselow 1987, for partial NPs) Parallel We would like to thank Tilman Hohle, Stefan Muller, Craig Thiersch and the anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. 1 Pollard (1996) Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994), Nerbonne (1994) Kathol (1995, sec. 7.7) Meurers (1998) St. Muller (1997) Bouma and van Noord (1998, sec. 3.4) 1 Proceedings of FHCG 98 Gosse Bouma, Geert Jan Kruijff Richard Oehrle (editors) Chapter 1, Copyright c fl1998, to these two ideas, HPSG approaches to PVP topicalization ....

....7.7) Meurers (1998) St. Muller (1997) Bouma and van Noord (1998, sec. 3. 4) 1 Proceedings of FHCG 98 Gosse Bouma, Geert Jan Kruijff Richard Oehrle (editors) Chapter 1, Copyright c fl1998, to these two ideas, HPSG approaches to PVP topicalization proposed a remnant movement like analysis (Hinrichs and Nakazawa 1994) or used an extended notion of valence, argument raising, which supports partial structures like those resulting from reanalysis (the other publications cited in fn. 1) Since one of the arguments against reanalysis fielded by G. Muller (1991, p. 175) is that a reanalysis rule cannot properly be ....

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Hinrichs, E. and T. Nakazawa (1994). Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German - An HPSG Analysis. In: E. Hinrichs, D. Meurers, and T. Nakazawa: Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitat Tubingen.

....for a verbal complement plus those arguments of that verbal complement which have not yet been saturated. As a result, the lexical entry of the auxiliary subcategorizes for an underspecified number of arguments. If the raised arguments have to obey grammar constraints, e.g. in the theory of Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) they are required to be non verbal signs, this results in an infinite number of solutions to the query for such a lexical entry. The reason is that the constraints enforced by the theory need to be checked on each member of the subcategorization list, and the list is of underspecified length. The ....

.... compiler described has has been fully implemented as part of the ConTroll system (G otz in prep) So far it has been tested with two complex hpsg grammars for German: one implementing the theory proposed in Pollard (1990) and the other focusing on the phenomena of aux flip and PVPtopicalization (Hinrichs and Nakazawa 1989, 1994). Lazy evaluation for these grammars led to efficiency gains of up to 30 compared to the non lazy approach described in G otz and Meurers (1995) ....

Hinrichs, E. W. and T. Nakazawa (1994). Partial-VP and Split-NP topicalization in German - an HPSG analysis. In: Erhard W. Hinrichs, W. Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa: Partial-VP and Split-NP Topicalization in German -- An HPSG Analysis and its Implementation. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universit at T ubingen.

....entry. 5 Implementation Results The depth bounded constraint propagation method was implemented for the ConTroll system (Gerdemann and King, 1994; Gotz and Meurers, 1995 and 1996) under Prolog. Test results on a complex grammar implementing an analysis of partial vp topicalization in German (Hinrichs, Meurers, and Nakazawa, 1994) show that constraint propagation significantly improves parsing with a covariation encoding of lexical rules. For the lexica produced by the covariation compiler, the implementation revealed that the most specific generalization which is propagated contains much valuable information. This is the ....

Hinrichs, Erhard, Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-vp and Split-np Topicalization in German -- An hpsg Analysis and its Implementation. Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereich 340 no. 58, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany.

....a philosophical point of view, there also are some advantages to encoding lexical rules as types. First of all such an encoding allows us to hierarchically organize lexical rules, which makes it possible to express generalizations over groups of lexical rules in a straightforward way. For example, Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) say that the Partial VP Topicalization Lexical Rule, the Split NP Topicalization Lexical Rule, and the Split NP Topicalization Lexical Rule 2 share a common mechanism. However, without a possibility to hierarchically group lexical rules and formulate constraints on these groups, they are unable ....

Hinrichs, Erhard W., W. Detmar Meurers, and Tsuneko Nakazawa. 1994. Partial-VP and Split-NP topicalization in German -- An HPSG analysis and its implementation. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340 Nr. 58, Universitat Tubingen.

....at the Third International Conference on HPSG. May 1996, Marseille, France. Version of May 2, 1996) Introduction The topicalization of partial verbal projections in German (henceforth: pvp topicalization) has received much attention over the last couple of years, most recently in two papers by Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) and Nerbonne (1994) What makes it interesting to take a second look at this topic are the conclusions drawn by the authors and the methods they use to capture the phenomenon: Nerbonne claims that only a traceless analysis can provide a satisfactory account. Furthermore, he introduces a ....

....but also points out that this is done at the cost of licensing multiple structures for sentences like (1a) Since these structures are not independently motivated they are spurious ambiguities which (under most concepts of linguistic theory) should be eliminated. This is where Nerbonne (1994) and Hinrichs and Nakazawa (1994) pick up. Common to both proposals is that they keep the first topicalization assumption but relax the second. The basic idea is to license partial constituents only in fronted position. In order for this idea to exclude the spurious structures of the Pollard (1990) analysis, we believe two things ....

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