Specifying syntactic structures
By: edited by Patrick Blackburn & Maarten de Rijke.
Contributors: Blackburn, Patrick, 1959-; Rijke, Maarten de.
Series: Studies in logic, language, and information
Publisher: CSLI Publications; FoLLI, European Association for Logic, Language, and Information
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif; [Dordrecht?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Description: The papers collected here belong to a new wave of the logical tradition. Either directly or indirectly, they address the shortcomings of the earlier work, and develop the tradition in a variety of new and important directions.

Topics discussed include: how to build feature structures over structured entities, how descriptive complexity results can link the logical approach with the Chomsky hierarchy, how to combine categorial and featural information, why it is that multiple categorial systems can be made to communicate in a controlled way, how to deal with cross-serial dependencies in unification formalisms, and what category theory has to tell us about HPSG.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. papers originally presented at a workshop held Sept. 26-28, 1994, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.
Table of contents: title: A grammar formalism and cross-serial dependencies / Tore Burheim; title: On constraint-based Lambek calculi / Jochen Dürre and Suresh Manandhar; title: On reducing principles to rules / Marcus Kracht; title: Structural control / Natasha Kurtonina and Michael Moortgat; title: Featureless HPSG / M. Andrew Moshier; title: On descriptive complexity, language complexity, and GB / James Rogers; title: Feature trees over arbitrary structures / Ralf Treinen; title: Dutch verb clustering without verb clusters / Gertjan van Noord and Gosse Bouma; title: Approaches to unification in grammar : a brief survey / Jürgen Wedekind.