Here it is!

[Stefan Müller]

Hi everbody,

Thank you very much for all the replies to my questions about
implemented systems. I am really impressed how much work goes on in the
respective communities. One thing I learned while adding the references
to my book was that the LFG bibliography is as incomplete as the HPSG
bib ...

I put a link to a file that contains all the bibtex entries for
publications I cite in one of my books on the grammar theory book web
page. Maybe this is helpful for somebody.

I hope that I represented the implementation projects and the theories
properly. You may check the result at:

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

The book contains a general introduction to basic linguistic terminology
(head, subject, complement, argument, adjunct), an introduction to
phrase structure grammar, motivating X-bar-Syntax. Then it contains
chapters about several theories with a focus on the explanation of
certain phenomena in (German) grammar (Valence, Adjunction, Semantics,
Passive, Scrambling, Nonlocal Dependencies).

The theories that are discussed are: GB, GPSG, LFG, CG, HPSG, CxG, TAG.
Each chapter ends with a section that discusses alternative or recent
variants of the respective theory. For GB there is a brief discussion of
Minimalism. A final section in every chapter tries to relate the
respective theory to the others and map the concepts.

The book ends with a rather lengthy chapter (140 pages) that discusses
arguments for UG and whether we should assume language specific innate
knowledge. It also discusses models of language acquisition and
processing issues.

The conclusion is that we should be rather careful with attributions to
UG since the evidence for UG is fading away ...

In addition the chapter covers general topics like empty elements,
transformations vs. lexical rules vs. empty elements, phrasal vs.
lexical approaches to constructions, generative vs. model theoretic
approaches, locality and recursion.

The book is supposed to go to the publisher in a month from now. If
somebody had time to read it or parts of it, I would be glad to get
comments. The literature on everything is enormous and I probably missed
and/or misrepresented things. So if there are any suggestions for
improvement, I would be glad to have them.

The book is in German, but there will be an English translation in half
a year (if resources permit this timing).

If you plan to read it, please drop me an email. I can make a version
with notes and index entries in the margin available.

Thanks and greetings from Berlin

        Stefan

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Stefan Müller       Tel: (+49) (+30) 838 52973
                    Fax: (+49) (030) 838 4 52973
Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
Deutsche Grammatik
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14 195 Berlin

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