Cranberry Words in Formal Grammar
Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer
Talk at
CSSP'01
in Paris, France, on October 5th, 2001.
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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