Grammatical Theory: Session 12: Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG)
Channel: Stefan Müller
Date: 2020-12-09

Textbook: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/287

This session deals with Tree Adjoining Grammar and explains how basic syntactic phenomena in German can be accounted for. We look at adjunction and substitution (the basic combinatoric operations of TAG) and then deal with local reordering (scrambling) in the German clause, verb placement, passive and nonlocal dependencies. I explain the LD/LP format = Local Domain/Linear Precedence, which is similar to what is known from GPSG, Multi Component TAG (MC-TAG) and Feature-based TAG (FTAG).