Grammar in Performance and Acquisition, ENS Paris (updated 2011)
Edward Stabler, email: stabler@ucla.edu
Slides:
1 formal grammar:
- I will use some examples from papers by Abels, Cinque, Barbiers, from week 1
- (Many other examples in ¶2.1 of Kobele (2006), in Hale (2003), and Stabler's (2008) lec notes)
- Stabler (1997) Derivational minimalism. Revised version appears in Retoré 1997
- Stabler (1999) Remnant movement and structural complexity. Revised version appears in Bouma, Hinrichs, Kruijff & Oehrle 1999.
- Michaelis (2001) "On Formal Properties of Minimalist Grammars", Potsdam thesis. (Linked at Michaelis's webpage)
- Stabler (2003) Comparing 3 perspectives on head movement. From Mahajan (2003)
- Stabler & Keenan (2003) Structural similarity. Revised version, Theoretical Computer Science 293: 345-363.
- Guillaumin (2004) Conversions between mildly context sensitive formalisms (Ocaml implementation)
- Gärtner & Michaelis (2005) Complexity of constraint interaction: Locality conditions and minimalist grammars. See also Gärtner & Sauerland (2007)
- Kobele (2006) "Generating Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar", UCLA dissertation. (See related papers at Kobele's webpage)
- Frey & Gärtner (2002) On the treatment of scrambling and adjunction in minimalist grammars. From Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002, edited by G. Jäger, G. Penn, & S. Wintner, pages 41-52.
- Gärtner & Michaelis (2010) On the treatment of multiple-Wh interrogatives in minimalist grammars. Forthcoming.
- Stabler (2010) Computational perspectives on minimalism. Revised version forthcoming in C. Boeckx, ed, Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism
- Stabler (2010) After GB. Revised version forthcoming in J. van Benthem & A. ter Meulen, eds, LOLA2.
- MCFGs, TAGs etc: Seki et al. (1991), Vijay-Shanker & Weir (1994)
2 interfaces:
- Simple type theory for basic semantics. A good introduction is provided in chapters 2-3 of Carpenter 1998
- Classics: Church (1940), Henkin (1950), Barendregt (1992). Extending simple type theory with recursive families of types: see Capretta's 2002 thesis
- Texts like Pierce (2002) or Sorensen & Urzyczyn (2006) introduce much more type theory than we need for this class. But a background in type theory is essential for understanding proposals like those in Moortgat (2002), Retoré & Lecomte (2003), de Groote (2007), Salvati (2005), Barker & Jacobson (2007), etc.
- For an introduction to morphology by composition of transducers see Roark&Sproat (2007). OT phonology by transducer composition, see Riggle (2004), Eisner (1997)
- For the daring, perhaps the most natural perspective on PF-syntax-LF is provided by tree transducers: Michaelis, Mönnich & Morawietz (2001), Kobele, Retoré & Salvati (2006)
3 recognition:
- Stabler (2011) "Top down recognizers for MCFGs and MGs", UCLA ms
- Harkema (2001) "Parsing Minimalist Languages", UCLA thesis
- Hale (2003) "Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing", Johns Hopkins thesis
- Stabler (2000) Minimalist grammars and recognition. Revised version appears in Rohrer, Rossdeutscher, & Kamp 2001
- Goodman (1999) Semiring parsing
- Implementations for experimentation
4 acquisition:
- Stabler (2008) Learnability (Ling212) lecture notes, ch.5 on learning MGs.
Edward Stabler<stabler@ucla.edu>