Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
Introduction
The leading
ideas are:
- Strict Lexicalism
- Concrete, surface-oriented structures
- Geometric
prediction
- Locality of head selection
- A distinction among types
of agreement
- Local encoding of unbounded dependencies
- Lexical cross-classification
- Hierarchical
cross-classification of grammatical constructions
- Obliqueness-based binding theory
- Semantically-based control theory
- Linearization
theory
A position
paper delivered at a Slavic languages workshop, includes an
introduction to HPSG (38 page PDF file).
Sites
The mother ship is Stanford's HPSG
site. They also host the HPSG Mailing list. Linguist list hosts a a
web-searchable version.
The other mother ship is Ohio State University.
King's College,
London has a HPSG in dialog(ue) project.
Researchers
Very incomplete and probably wrong.