Summer School on Constraint-Based Grammar in Norway

[Lars Hellan]

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



>>Questions about the summer school can also be directed to:
>>
>>dorothee.beermann at hf.ntnu.no
>>
>>
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