Cross-linguistic Variation in a Processing Account: The Case of Multiple Wh-questions � (2009)
Inbal Arnon, Neal Snider, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Ivan A. Sag
The distinction between acceptable and unacceptable sentences has long served as the empirical basis for theoretical linguistics. Traditionally, two kinds of explanations have been offered to account...
Processing Explains Superiority Effects (2009)
Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag, ...
In a nutshell The existence of Superiority violations and the inability of grammar-based accounts to accommodate them leads us to suggest a processing-based model, in which Superiority effects as...
Generating Questions with Deep Reversible Grammars (2009)
One desirable approach to question generation exploits existing general-purpose grammars which are both linguistically rich and computationally effective. A generator using such a grammar can ensure...
Good Fillers EXP 1 EXP 2 Bad Fillers RETHINKING SUPERIORITY EFFECTS – A PROCESSING MODEL (2009)
Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag, ...
ABSTRACT- We present evidence from two magnitude-estimation studies for a processing-based model of wh-dependencies (Arnon, Estigarribia, Hofmeister, Jaeger, Pettibone, Sag, & Snider, 2005)....
Chapter 1 IN SEARCH OF A SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF DETERMINERLESS PPS (2009)
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
This paper examines determinerless prepositional phrases in English and Dutch from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions, arguing...
Abstract Minimal Recursion Semantics (2008)
An Introduction, Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag, Carl Pollard
Minimal recursion semantics (MRS) is a framework for computational semantics that is suitable for parsing and
Some Arguments for Coordinate Ellipsis in HPSG (2008)
English ‘argument cluster coordination ’ (ACC) and Right Node Raising (RNR) have been taken as providing strong motivation for analyses couched within Categorial Grammar (CG):
ABSTRACT PROCESSING ENGLISH WITH A GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR (2008)
Jean Mark Gawron, Jonathan King, John Lamping, Egon Loebner, Eo Anne Paulson, Geoffrey K. Pullum, ...
This paper describes a natural language processing system implemented at Hewlett-Packard's Computer Research Center. The system's main components are: a Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar...
Chapter 1 IN SEARCH OF A SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF DETERMINERLESS PPS (2008)
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
Abstract This paper examines determinerless prepositional phrases in English and Dutch from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions,...
Performance-Compatible Competence Grammar ∗ (2008)
Half a century ago, Noam Chomsky introduced the field of linguistics to new mathematical tools drawn largely from recursive function theory. These tools imparted a mathematical precision to the...
Lexical And Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation. (2008)
Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, In Pollard, The Subcategorized, Gert Webelhuth, Jean-pierre Koenig, ...
arguments of a head are stored on a single ordered list, the subcat list. However, Borsley (1989) argues that there are various deficiencies in this approach, and suggests that the unified list...
Lexical And Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation. (2008)
Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, In Pollard, The Subcategorized, Gert Webelhuth, Jean-pierre Koenig, ...
arguments of a head are stored on a single ordered list, the subcat list. However, Borsley (1989) argues that there are various deficiencies in this approach, and suggests that the unified list...
Chapter 1 IN SEARCH OF A SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF DETERMINERLESS PPS (2008)
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
Abstract This paper examines determinerless prepositional phrases in English and Dutch from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions,...
Philip H. Miller, Ivan A. Sag, Anne Abeillé
The French clitic system has posed a persistent challenge to transformational syntactic analysis, which has never produced a successful account of problems such as clitic ordering. Lexicalist...
Processing Accounts for Superiority Effects (2008)
Ivan A. Sag, Inbal Arnon, Neal Snider, Philip Hofmeister, Florian Jaeger
At least since Kuno & Robinson 1972, it has been widely assumed within generative
HPSG: Background and Basics (2007)
We want to emphasize the extent to which HPSG is intellectually indebted to a wide range of recent research traditions in syntax (principally nonderivational approaches such as categorial grammar...
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics Or Movement (2007)
Philip H. Miller, Ivan A. Sag, The French Clitic, Movement Without, Clitics Or
This paper presents some of the common ground underlying our collaboration with Anne Abeille and Daniele Godard (v. Sag and Godard (1994), Abeille and Godard (1994, 1996, 1997), Abeille et al. (to...
Paper I Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation (2007)
Jonathan Cinzbur, Ivan A. Sag, Matthew Puve
Analyses of dialogue that incorporate the insights of speech act theory presuppose that an ut-terance gets associated with a conversational move type (CMT). Due to difficulties that beset attempts to...
ity over the technical or implementational point of view. In this regard, it cannot be criticized as designed in a too rigid way from the implementational viewpoint and not adaptable to new...
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Carl Pollard, Ivan A. Sag, Edited John Goldsmith, James D, Jerrold M. Sadock, John Nerbonne, ...
It has been almost ten years since the classic Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, and Sag 1985) appeared. And like its predecessor, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar will...
Negation and Negative Concord in Romance (2007)
Henriette De Swart, Uil-ots French, Ivan A. Sag
This paper addresses the two interpretations that a combination of negative indefinites can get in concord languages like French: a concord reading, which amounts to a single negation, and a double...
... X n (2) h prove, + [ NP] i (3) Kajita 1967: a. The ice served to chill the beer. b. *The ice served to melt (4) Reassessment a. Higgins: unexpressed subject of infinitive complement must be...
Rules and exceptions in the english auxiliary system. Manuscript (2007)
This paper sketches an HPSG analysis of the English auxiliary system, including finite negation, inversion, ellipsis, contraction, and the restricted distribution of unfocussed do. Negative and other...
Negation Without Head Movement (2007)
This paper presents a lexicalist analysis of negation in French and English. In both languages, negation in finite clauses is grammatically distinguished from constituent negation. Lexical...
Ann Copestake, Fabre Lambeau, Aline Villavicencio, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, Ivan A. Sag, ...
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Robert Levine Ohio, Robert Levine, Ivan A. Sag
This paper compares transformation-based and constraint-based treatments of unbounded filler-gap dependencies. Careful examination of recent proposals to deal with parasitic gaps in terms of null...
Locality and accessibility in wh-questions (2007)
Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Ivan A. Sag, Arnon Neal Snider
Even in relatively configurational languages, such as English, speakers frequently have a choice between different constituent orders. Many of these word order variations have been linked to...
Feature Geometry and Predictions of Locality (2007)
This paper deals with a number issues having to do with locality in natural language. Locality of selection is the problem of delimiting what syntactic and semantic information lexical items select....
Processing complexity in Subjacency violations: the complex noun phrase constraint (2007)
Ivan A. Sag, Philip Hofmeister, Neal Snider
We may make an intuitive judgment that some linguistic expression is odd or deviant. But we cannot in general know, pretheoretically, whether this deviance is a matter of syntax, semantics,...
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2006)
Harry J. Tily, Ivan A. Sag, Held In Varna, Stefan Müller (editor
The treatment of French causatives and pronominal affixes outlined in
Integrating Conversational Move Types in the Grammar of Conversation (2003)
Integrating Conversational Move, Jonathan Ginzburg, Ivan A. Sag, Matthew Purver
Analyses of dialogue that incorporate the insights of speech act theory presuppose that an utterance gets associated with a conversational move type (CMT). Due to diculties that beset attempts to...
In search of a systematic treatment of determinerless PPs (2003)
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
This paper examines Determinerless PPs in English from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions, arguing that the observed cases fall...
In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs (2003)
Timothy Baldwin John, John Beavers, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
This paper examines Determinerless PPs in English from a theoretical perspective. We classify attested P + N combinations across a number of analytic dimensions, arguing that the observed cases fall...
Multiword expressions: A pain in the neck for nlp (2002)
Ivan A. Sag, Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond, Ann Copestake
Abstract. Multiword expressions are a key problem for the development of large-scale, linguistically sound natural language processing technology. This paper surveys the problem and some currently...
Two Kinds of Composition in French Complex Predicates\Lambda (2002)
Anne Abeille, Danièle Godard, Ivan A. Sag
Romance causative constructions, and French causatives in particular, have well-known properties which set them apart from other kinds of infinitival complementation. Their most distinctive property...
Satisfying constraints on extraction and adjunction (2001)
Gosse Bouma, Robert Malouf, Ivan A. Sag
Abstract. In this paper, we present a unified feature-based theory of complement, adjunct, and subject extraction, in which there is no need either for valence reducing lexical rules or for...
Satisfying constraints on extraction and adjunction (2001)
Gosse Bouma, Robert Malouf, Ivan A. Sag
Abstract. In this paper, we present a unified feature-based theory of complement, adjunct, and subject extraction, in which there is no need either for valence reducing lexical rules or for...
Incorporating contracted auxiliaries in English. Unpublished conference presentation at HPSG (1999)
that have been grouped together as `contracted auxiliaries'. On the one hand are the syllabic reduced auxiliaries that are unselective
this paper we will explore the idea that second position is properly characterized by linearization theory, i.e. by domains of the sort characterized by Reape, Kathol, Pollard and others. This allows...
Dissociations Between Argument Structure And Grammatical Relations (1999)
Christopher D. Manning, Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Ivan A. Sag
This paper is based on part of the contents of a paper delivered at the Tubingen HPSG workshop in June 1995, and distributed as Manning and Sag (1995). However, it excludes many topics included in...
Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics (1998)
Christopher D. Manning, Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Ivan A. Sag
This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have different representations: syntactically ergative and...
The Lexical Integrity of Japanese Causatives (1998)
Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Masayo Iida
This paper has had a long gestation. Initial arguments for a lexicalist treatment of Japanese causatives were gathered in a seminar class run by Ivan Sag in 1990. Participants included Makoto...
Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding (1998)
Christopher Manning And, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Ivan A. Sag
Manning, C.D. and Sag, I. A. 1998 Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists...
Mixed Categories In The Hierarchical Lexicon (1998)
Robert P. Malouf, Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow
Grammatical categories are central to generative theories of grammar. However, despite their importance, relatively little attention has been paid to investigating their essential nature. It is...
Dissociations Between Argument Structure And Grammatical Relations (1998)
Christopher D. Manning, Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Ivan A. Sag
This paper is based on part of a talk given at the Tubingen HPSG workshop in June 1995, and distributed as Manning and Sag (1995). However, it excludes much material presented there, which will now...
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction and Adjunction (1998)
Gosse Bouma, Robert Malouf, Ivan A. Sag
In this paper, we present a unified feature-based theory of complement, adjunct, and subject extraction, in which there is no need either for valence reducing lexical rules or for phonologically null...
English Relative Clause Constructions (1997)
This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations...
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics or Movement (1997)
The French clitic system has posed a persistent challenge to transformational syntactic analysis, which has never produced a successful account of problems such as clitic ordering. Lexicalist...
French Bounded Dependencies (1996)
Anne Abeille, Danièle Godard, Philip Miller, Ivan A. Sag
this paper is based on analyses proposed in Sag & Godard 1993, Abeill'e & Godard 1994, Miller & Sag 1994, and Abeill'e, Godard & Miller 1994. It is part of a larger project...
Dissociations Between Argument Structure And Grammatical Relations (1995)
Christopher Manning And, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher D. Manning, Ivan A. Sag, Ivan A. Sag
This paper is based on part of a talk given at the Tubingen HPSG workshop in June 1995, and distributed as Manning and Sag (1995). However, it excludes much material presented there, which will now...
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics Or Movement (1995)
Philip H. Miller, Ivan A. Sag, French Clitic, Movement Without, Clitics Or
This paper presents some of the common ground underlying our collaboration with Anne Abeille and Daniele Godard (v. Sag and Godard (1994), Abeille and Godard (1994, 1996, 1997), Abeille et al. (to...
Extraction without traces (1994)
In this paper, I argue that the grammar of English extraction constructions is better analyzed without
The Lexical Integrity of Japanese Causatives (1994)
Masayo Iida, Christopher D. Manning, Patrick O'Neill, Ivan A. Sag
this paper, we sketch a strictly lexical theory of Japanese causatives that deals with the evidence offered for a complex phrasal analysis. The conclusions we will reach are given in (1) on the...
Extraction of De-Phrases from the French NP (1994)
This paper addresses a number of empirical problems surrounding the analysis of `extraction' from French nominal phrases. The lexically based analysis that we present expresses a fundamental...
Anaphors in English and the scope of binding theory (1992)
Since the pioneering work of Lees and Klima (1963), it has commonly been assumed that a single generalization determines the possible antecedents of anaphors (reflexive and reciprocal expressions) in...
Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon (1987)
Daniel Paul Flickinger, Thomas Wasow, Ivan A. Sag
this dissertation. I single out for special thanks first a few of the Ventura Hall crowd, including Mfirvet Eng, Nancy Wiegand, Susan Stucky (the other Mennonite formal linguist), and Kathie...
Processing English with a generalized phrase structure grammar (1982)
Jean Mark Gawron, Jonathan King, John Lamping, Egon Loebner, Eo Anne Paulson, Geoffrey K. Pullum, ...
This paper describes a natural language processing system implemented at Hewlett-Packard's Computer Research Center. The system's main components are: a Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar...
PROCESSING ENGLISH WITH A GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR
Jean Mark Gawron, Jonathan King, John Lamping, Egon Loebner, E. Anne Paulson, Geoffrey K. Pullum, ...
Two Kinds of Composition in French Complex Predicates
Anne Abeille, Danièle Godard, U. Paris, Ivan A. Sag
This paper is part of a larger project on French Syntax (see Abeill'e, Godard and Sag in preparation) that has been supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (INT-9416855)...