1. Lexicon and Lexical Rules in HPSG Evgenia Ivanova eivanova@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de February 7, 2007

2. Outline 2 types of lexical generalizations Basic Lexicon and its status Extending the Lexicon with MLR with DLR Open Questions References

3. Lexical Generalizations Horizontal Generalizations Vertical Generalizations

4. Horizontal Generalizations Lexical rules If there is a grammatical word described by D then the corresponding words E’ are also grammatical

5. Horizontal Generalizations

6. Lexical Generalizations Horizontal Generalizations Vertical Generalizations

7. Lexical principles If a word is described by D, then it is also described by E

8. Vertical Generalizations Complex vs type antecedents

9. Vertical Generalizations Complex vs type antecedents

10. Vertical Generalizations Complex vs type antecedents

11. Vertical Generalizations Complex vs type antecedents

12. Outline 2 types of lexical generalizations Basic Lexicon and its status Extending the Lexicon with MLR with DLR Open Questions References

13. Basic Lexicon Lexicon external to the theory Lexicon internal to the theory

14. Basic Lexicon - Lexicon external to the theory Extra set of descriptions of word objects G =

15. Basic Lexicon - Lexicon internal to the theory Ordinary implicational constraint on word objects Word Principle word  D 1 V D 2 V…V D n

16. Outline 2 types of lexical generalizations Basic Lexicon and its status Extending the Lexicon with MLR with DLR Open Questions References

17. Extending the Lexicon MLR – Meta-Level Lexical Rules (lexical entries) DLR – Description-Level Level Rules (word objects)

18. Extending the Lexicon with MLR R = {r 1,…r n } (binary relations) B = {β 1 … β n } (base lexical entries) L: (full set of lexical entries) B<L for all λ in L and r in R such that r(λ,φ) in L

19. Extending the Lexicon with DLR Binary relations between word objects Integration of lexical rules at the same level as the other grammatical constraints

20. Extending the Lexicon with DLR Change the Signature

21. Extending the Lexicon with DLR

23. Outline 2 types of lexical generalizations Basic Lexicon and its status Extending the Lexicon with MLR with DLR Open Questions References

24. Open Questions Distinguishing between lexical and structural information Status of the input of the lexical rule “Phantom” lexical entries

25. References [Meurers, 2000] Lexical Generalizations in the Syntax of German Non-Finite Constructions. Phil. Dissertation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen [p.103-135]