This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Since its inception in the mid-eighties, the field of construction grammar has been steadily
growing and constructionist approaches to language have by now become a mainstream …

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a declarative and monostratal version of
Generative Grammar, in which linguistic expressions have a single relatively simple …

In Construction Grammar, grammar is conceived as an inventory of form–function–meaning
complexes of varying degrees of internal complexity and lexical fixity. These complexes …

This chapter discusses local ordering variants and how they can be analyzed in HPSG. So-
called scrambling, the local reordering of arguments of a head, can be accounted for by …

When he introduced the framework now known as Construction Grammar, Charles Fillmore
said:“Grammatical Construction Theory differs from […] other frameworks […] in its insistence …

Université de Paris The distinction between raising predicates and control predicates has
been a hallmark of syntactic theory since the 60s. Unlike transformational analyses, HPSG …

Lexemes may be split internally, by phenomena such as suppletion, periphrasis, heteroclisis
and deponency. Generalizing over these phenomena, which split a lexeme's paradigm, we …

Chains of auxiliary verbs in Spanish allow for the reconceptualization of well-known
grammatical problems under the light of understudied structures. In this paper we will deal …