Covering both core and peripheral phenomena,'he Syntactic Structures of Korean'is a
concrete and precise grammar of the language. Based on the framework of Sign-based …

Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions-
pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general-to be …

4.1 Overview 105 4.2 Generic units 106 4.3 Relational units 110 4.4 Catenae and ratios 112
4.5 Phrase structure constituents 115 4.6 Catenae in phrase structure grammar 116 4.7 …

This chapter discusses the main tenets of Construction Grammar (CxG) and shows that
HPSG adheres to them. The discussion includes surface orientation, language acquisition …

Languages are complex systems that allow speakers to produce novel grammatical
utterances. Yet, linguists differ as to how general and abstract they think the mental …

University of Leuven This chapter shows how nominal structures are treated in HPSG. The
introduction puts the discussion in the broader context of the NP vs. DP debate and …

There are several types of absolute constructions (acs) in English. Among these, this article
investigates the so-called what-with ac, which has not received much attention in the study …

Of special relevance for the NP vs. DP debate are nominals in which the determiner has
other values for number, gender, case and/or person than the noun, for depending on …

English binominal NPs (BNPs)(eg, a giant of a man, a skullcracker of a headache) are of
empirical and theoretical interest due to their complex syntactic and semantic properties. In …

This paper considers the NP vs. DP debate from the perspective of dependency grammar
(DG). The message is delivered that given DG assumptions about sentence structure, the …