The course consists of 13 lectures and 6 exercise sessions.
It is taught in the first semester.
Lectures
| Thursday | 10.35-12.05 | Dekenstraat 2 VHI 02.41 |
Exercise Sessions
| October 10 | 16.30-18.30 | Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03 |
| October 24 | 16.00-18.00 | Celestijnenlaan 200 E 01.212 |
| November 7 | 16.30-18.30 | Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03 |
| November 21 | 16.30-18.30 | Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03 |
| December 5 | 16.30-18.30 | Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03 |
| December 19 | 16.30-18.30 | Celestijnenlaan 200 S 00.03 |
Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow and Emily M. Bender,
Syntactic
Theory. A Formal Introduction. Second Edition.
CSLI Publications, Stanford University, 2003.
Copies are available at bookshop Peeters (Bondgenotenlaan 153).
Lecture 1a: preface
Lecture 1b: introduction
Lecture 2: grammars
Lecture 3: typed feature structures
Lecture 4: complex feature values
Lecture 5a: semantics
Lecture 5b: semantic representations
Lecture 6: binding
Lecture 7: morphology and the lexicon
Lecture 8: grammars and psychological reality
Lecture 9: passive
Lecture 10: dummies and idioms
Lecture 11: infinitival complements
Lecture 12: auxiliaries
Lecture 13: long distance dependencies
Series 1 deadline: October 10
Series 2 deadline: October 24
Series 3 deadline: November 7
Series 4 deadline: November 21
Series 5 deadline: December 5
Series 6 deadline: December 19
Bring your solutions to the exercise sessions.
In case you cannot attend the exercise session(s),
you can submit electronically (.pdf or .doc format).
Here you can check whether I have
received your solutions.
The solutions of the exercises are discussed collectively during
the exercise sessions.
Thursday, 15.00-17.00
Centre for Computational Linguistics
Blijde-Inkomststraat 13, 3000 Leuven
Room 01.01
Oral with written preparation
Students who have delivered the solutions of the exercises by
the set deadlines have an open book exam.
For an example of a question, see the Student Information Page of the MAI web site.
Date: January 16 and 30, 9 a.m.
Location: CCL, Blijde Inkomststraat 13
General information about Head-driven
Phrase Structure Grammar.
Bibliography of Head-driven
Phrase Structure Grammar.
On-line proceedings
of HPSG conferences.
Jobs in language and speech
technology. See also
external links of CCL.