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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Formal approaches to the interface of syntax and information structure |
| Lecturer(s): | Kordula De Kuthy (The Ohio State University) and Detmar Meurers (The Ohio State University) |
| Type: | Advanced Course |
| Section: | Language and Computation |
| Week: | First | | Time: | 14.00-15.30 (Slot 3) |
| Webpage: | http://ling.osu.edu/~kdk/
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| Reader: | Course will not have a reader | | Room: | A4 |
Description The interaction between syntax, information structure, and intonation
has become one of the hot spots in theoretical and computational
linguistic research. There is a growing awareness that empirically
adequate linguistic analyses require all three modules of linguistic
representation to be expressed in an architecture supporting constraints
within and across the modules. And results of this linguistic research
have started to inform computational work, e.g. on the generation of
contextually appropriate intonation and syntax in dialog systems.
The course introduces and compares current approaches to the syntax
information structure interface in three formal linguistic frameworks:
Lexical-Functional Grammar (Choi, Holloway-King), Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar (Engdahl/Vallduví, De Kuthy), and Combinatory
Categorial Grammar (Steedman). After an introduction to the idea of
information-packaging, the course turns to case studies highlighting how
syntactic, pragmatic, and intonational constraints are expressed in the
different approaches, and how their interaction is captured.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2003-11-20
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