good news from generative grammarians

[Tom Wasow]

I won't try to answer your questions, but I want to register my annoyance
with the restriction of the term "generative grammar" to GB/MP.  By any
reasonably compositional interpretation of the term, HPSG is one school of
generative grammar.

Tom

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Liz Coppock wrote:

> One of my professors (a die-hard generative grammar
> guy) said, wrt HPSG (in a computational linguistics
> class), "we presuppose all this stuff."
>
> He indicated a conception of the two frameworks
> wherein one was just more abstract than the other, not
> concerned with all the messy details, but essentially
> compatible.
>
> I wonder what the people on this list have to say
> about the relationship between HPSG and generative
> grammar --
>
> Is his view accurate?
> In what sense(s) are the two frameworks compatible?
> Could there exist a mapping from any generative
> grammar theory to a corresponding HPSG theory?
> Is one more abstract than the other?
>
>
> Elizabeth Coppock
> Northwestern University
>
> --- Tibor Kiss <tibor at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
> wrote:
> > Hi everybody (as well as John N.),
> >
> > I just wanted to inform you that HPSG is no longer
> > ignored by famous
> > generative grammarians.  Prof. D. Pesetsky (Ferrari
> > P. Ward Professor of
> > Linguistics at MIT) writes in his recent (2000) LI
> > monograph (p. 11fn12):
> > "The proposal bears interesting similarities to
> > proposals within the G/HPSG
> > tradition ... which treat a wide variety of
> > syntactic relations as the
> > result of extremely local feature movement."
> >
> > Now they're talking ...
> >
> > T.
> >
> >
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