English PS-rules for NP/QP

[Joan Bresnan]

Aaron, you probably have already received email about this privately, but in
any case
LFG enjoys large-scale, industrial-strength grammars of English that
are certain to have analyses of these constructions.  I suspect that Miriam
and Tracy's cookbook will have analyses, as well....

Best wishes,
Joan

On 2/9/07, George Aaron Broadwell <g.broadwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Can someone direct me to some phrase structure rules for English NP/QP
> that would actually produce the correct results for examples like the
> following?
>
> all John's red books
> John's few red book
> those few books
> most of those books
> all five of those books
>
>
> This is for classroom use and not for any highly theoretical purpose -- I
> would just like some rules and lexical entries for quantifiers, however
> clunky, that would produce the right results for English.  Most English
> syntax books on my shelf say nothing at all interesting about this.  The
> closest thing I find to a systematic discussion of this is McCawley's Syntactic
> phenomena of English.  But I am probably missing some key source, and
> would appreciate a pointer.
>
> Thanks
> Aaron Broadwell
>



-- 
Joan Bresnan
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~bresnan/
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