Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar
Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer
In: Claire Beyssade, Olivier Bonami, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, and
Francis Corblin (eds): Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and
Semantics 4. Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. 2003.
Abstract
Distributional idiosyncrasies have not received much attention in
formal linguistics, and, thus, it is no surprise that so far
grammars in existing frameworks have provided no means to express
the attested occurrence restrictions. Adopting the framework of
HPSG, we show how the necessary restrictions can be stated in the
lexical entries of cranberry words. A new feature, COLL, used for
this purpose can be seen as a periphery module that leaves the
principle-governed part of the grammar untouched. Our analysis
is thus in line with the general research program of generative
linguistics.
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Bibtex entry:
@incollection{Richter:Sailer:03,
author = {Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer},
title = {Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar},
editor = {Claire Beyssade and Olivier Bonami and
Patricia {Cabredo Hofherr} and Francis Corblin},
year = 2003,
booktitle = {Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 4},
volume = 4,
publisher = {Presses de l'Universit\'e de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris},
pages = {155 -- 171}
}
Frank Richter