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Konvens 92 pp 228–237Cite as

Constituent Coordination in HPSG

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Diese Arbeit schlägt eine Behandlung von Konstituentenkoordination im Rahmen der Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) vor. Anders als vorhergehende Ansätze, die davon ausgehen, daß eine koordinierte Konstruktion kopflos ist oder mehrere Köpfe hat, nehme ich an, daß die Konjunktion als funktionale Kategorie der Kopf der Koordinationsphrase ist. Die syntaktische Spezifikation des Kopfes wird als eine Funktion der Spezifikationen seiner beiden Komplemente betrachtet. Unter dieser Annahme kann der innerphrasale Aufbau von einfachen sowie komplexen Koordinationskonstituenten allein mit dem in HPSG vorhandenen Inventar an Prinzipien und Regeln beschrieben werden. Koordination von ungesättigten Konjunkten kann durch den Lexikoneintrag der Konjunktion ohne zusätzliche Regeln oder Modifikationen gesteuert werden.

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In this paper we propose a treatment of constituent coordination within the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). In contrast to former approaches which assume that a coordinated construction is either a headless or a multi-headed structure, we take the position that the conjunction is a functional category which functions as the head of the coordinate phrase. Under this assumption, the internal structure of ordinary and complex coordinate constituents can be described with the existing inventory of principles and rules in HPSG. Coordination of unsaturated conjuncts is controlled by the lexical entry for the conjunction and without any additional rules or modifications.

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Paritong, M. (1992). Constituent Coordination in HPSG. In: Görz, G. (eds) Konvens 92. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77809-4_24

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