good news from generative grammarians

[Liz Coppock]

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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