[HPSG-L] Comparison of HPSG/SBCG and Fluid Construction Grammar

[Stefan Müller]

Hi everybody,

Remi van Trijp wrote some papers comparing SBCG to Fluid Construction
Grammar. He attempts to show that the two frameworks are totally
different: different schools (generative vs. cognitive-functional),
different types of formalization (mathematical vs. implemented).

Furthermore he argued that FCG is superior in terms of completeness,
explanatory adequacy, and theoretical parsimony.

I think that this is not justified and that both approaches are
basically in the same class albeit with focus on different aspects of
language.

This is a draft of a paper discussing these things:

http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/hpsg-sbcg-fcg.html

Comments are welcome!

Best wishes

        Stefan

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Deutsche Grammatik
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