Fwd: Summer School on Constraint-Based Grammar in Norway

Thu May 10 20:42:53 UTC 2001

>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:14:47 -0700
>To: beermann at csli.Stanford.EDU
>From: Dorothee Beermann <beermann at csli.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Summer School on Constraint-Based Grammar in Norway
>
>
>                           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

    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.
>

>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

Question about the summer school can also be directed to:

dorothee.beermann at hf.ntnu.no

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