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<blockquote type=cite cite>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:14:47 -0700<br>
To: beermann@csli.Stanford.EDU<br>
From: Dorothee Beermann <beermann@csli.stanford.edu><br>
Subject: Summer School on Constraint-Based Grammar in Norway <br>
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SCANDINAVIAN SUMMER SCHOOL
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6 - 11 AUGUST 2001</b>
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Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. <br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>The Linguistics Department, NTNU (Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim), will offer a one week
summer school in Constraint-based grammars, primarily HPSG. <br>
Topics include Syntax and Semantics in HPSG (and also Construction
Grammar), Statistical approaches to grammar, and Grammar Engineering.
Course descriptions are given below.<br>
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<b>Lecturers are </blockquote> <br>
Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University, <br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Carl Pollard, Ohio State University, <br>
Jean-Pierre Koenig, State University of New York, Buffalo, <br>
Robert P. Malouf, University of Groningen, <br>
Stephan Oepen, CSLI, Stanford University, <br>
Robert Levine, Ohio State University , <br>
Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University and <br>
Frederik Fouvry, Universität des Saarlandes</b>. <br>
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The school is sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council and the
Language Technology Programme of NorFA, and is open to all interested
parties. (Enrollment limits will be imposed only for the practical course
on Grammar engineering.)<br>
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There is no participation fee and housing reservations can be made
through the organizers <br>
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The summer school will take place after <b>HPSG-2001</b> (Aug. 3-5, also
in <br>
Trondheim) and just before <b>ESSLLI 2001 </b>(Aug. 13-24, in Helsinki).
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/</a></u></font>).
It begins in the afternoon of Monday, August 6, and ends in the early
afternoon of Saturday, August 11.<br>
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Web address for the school (and also for HPSG-2001) is
<a href="http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/HPSG2001" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/HPSG2001</a></font>.<br>
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</u>The summer school's location is the University Center at Dragvoll (in
beautiful, hilly surroundings at the outskirts of town, with a view of
the fjord, and direct access to hiking and biking trails).<br>
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Hotel rooms in Trondheim during the summer school are scarce, due to a
number of conferences and exhibitions in the area. Therefore, a bulk
reservation has been made at Trondheim Vandrerhjem ( youth hostel style,
but with single rooms). Reservations can be made through the
organizers. In addition, a few guesthouse facilities near the school site
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be available.<br>
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More information: <font color="#0000FF"><u>Lars Hellan</u></font> and
<font color="#0000FF"><u>Torbjørn Nordgård</u></font> (organizers)<br>
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<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/HPSG2001" eudora="autourl">http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/HPSG2001</a></u></font>
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<b>PRELIMINARY COURSE DESCRIPTIONS<br>
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Ivan Sag, Stanford University:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Core Clauses and Construction Theory<br>
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</b>This course introduces a systematic syntactic and semantic analysis of key<br>
English clausal constructions, including declaratives (indicatives,<br>
subjunctives, and subjectless clauses) interrogatives (polars, wh-initial,<br>
wh-in situ and sluices), exclamatives and imperatives. The approach that is<br>
presented integrates Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar with key ideas from<br>
Construction Grammar (specifically the version developed by Fillmore and Kay<br>
and their colleagues) and Situation Semantics (in Barwise and Perry's sense).<br>
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Literature:<br>
Ginzburg, Jonathan, and Ivan Sag (2000) Interrogative Investigations. CSLI Publications: Stanford<br>
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</font><b>Carl Pollard, Ohio State University:<br>
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<font size=4>Higher-Order Grammar: a Constraint-Based and Type-Logical Foundation for Linguistic Theory<br>
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</b></font><font face="MS Serif, Geneva">Typed lambda calculi (Curry and Feys 1958) and their extensions known <br>
as higher-order logics (Church 1940, Henkin 1950, Gallin 1975) are <br>
widely employed in formal semantics. But as foundations for syntactic <br>
theory, they appear to have found few advocates (Curry 1961, Moshier <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">1997). Based on a form of higher-order logic due to Lambek and Scott <br>
</font>(1986), this course develops a grammar framework that combines the <br>
advantages of constraint-based and type-logical grammar. By way of <br>
illustration, novel and extremely simple new analyses are provided for <br>
(a) coordination of unlikes and (2) the distinction between lexical <br>
ambiguity and neutralization (feature value syncretism).<br>
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<b>Jean-Pierre Koenig, State University of New York, Buffalo:<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Semantics and the Lexicon<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">This course discusses the organization of lexical knowledge,<br>
focussing particularly on the organization of semantic<br>
knowledge and its interface with syntax. Topics covered<br>
will include: The hierarchical lexicon (both with type-underspecification<br>
and lexical rules), constructional morphology, linking, the<br>
argument/adjunct distinction,<br>
and the structure of lexical semantic representations. The approach<br>
that will be presented is cast within Head-driven Phrase-Structure<br>
Grammar, but comparison with Constructional Approaches to argument<br>
structure will also be covered, as well as some experimental data<br>
on the use of argument structure in human sentence processing.<br>
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Literature:<br>
Davis, Anthony and Jean-Pierre Koenig (2000) `Linking as constraints on<br>
word classes in a hierarchical lexicon', Language. 76:56-91.<br>
Koenig, Jean-Pierre (1999) Lexical Relations. CSLI publications:<br>
Stanford.<br>
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</font><b>Robert Malouf, University of Groningen:<br>
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<font size=4>Statistics for linguists<br>
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</b></font>This course will offer a basic introduction to statistics for working HPSG <br>
linguists. Topics to be covered include basic probability and information <br>
theory, hypothesis testing, statistics for corpus analysis, and stochastic <br>
attribute value grammars.<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite><b>Stephan Oepen, CSLI, Stanford University and Frederik Fouvry, Universität des Saarlands<br>
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<font size=4>Grammar Engineering </b>(course description will follow)<br>
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</font><b>Robert Levine and Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University:<br>
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<font face="MS Serif, Geneva" size=4>Locality of grammatical relations <br>
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</b></font><font face="MS Serif, Geneva">A number of phenomena have been discussed in which traditionally local <br>
properties of embedded constituents apparently have to be visible <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>outside of the local domain: case assignment (Meurers, <br>
</font><font face="MS Serif, Geneva">Przepiorkowski), tag questions (Flickinger & Bender), "tough" <br>
complement structures (Levine), or relative clauses and complementizer <br>
agreement (Hoehle). The idea of this course is to discuss these <br>
constructions and investigate which properties of what kind of <br>
constituents need to persist in which non-local domain.<br>
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</font>Literature:<br>
As general preparation, some understanding of the setup of HPSG and <br>
the idea of locality of selection would be helpful. So people without <br>
an HPSG background would profit from reading chapter 1, 3, and 7 of <br>
Pollard and Sag (1994). The two issues which caused us to look closer <br>
at cases where locality seems to be violated are also available:<br>
Robert Levine: 'Tough' complementation and the extraclausal <br>
propagation of argument descriptions. In Dan Flickinger and Andreas <br>
Kathol: On-line proceedings of the 7th International Conference on <br>
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Available from <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/HPSG00/hpsg00-toc.html" eudora="autourl">http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/HPSG00/hpsg00-toc.html</a><br>
</u></font>Detmar Meurers: Raising Spirits (and assigning them case). Groninger <br>
Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik (GAGL), Nr. 43. <br>
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, German Department. Available from <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://ling.osu.edu/~dm/papers/gagl-raising-spirits.html" eudora="autourl">http://ling.osu.edu/~dm/papers/gagl-raising-spirits.html</a></u></font></blockquote><br>
Question about the summer school can also be directed to:<br>
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<font color="#0000FF"><u>dorothee.beermann@hf.ntnu.no<br>
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