Unaccusativity in HPSG

Carl Pollard pollard at ling.ohio-state.edu
Fri Nov 26 14:50:04 UTC 2004


Hi Stefan and Dan (pc),

>
I agree that having several pointer features (for external arguments,
internal arguments, and maybe even other features) should be avoided (as=20
Dan Flickinger, pc 2000 pointed out to me, features like ERG introduce=20
grammatical functions into HPSG and this is against what the philosphy=20
dictates =3D;-).
>>

I wondered what philosophy you had in mind. I always thought SUBJ, COMPS,
and SPR were grammatical functions. You got a problem with that?

Carl



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