Modern Phrase Structure Grammar

This book provides an introduction to Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), theories which have formed one of the main currents in syntactic theory since 1980.

Preface. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Classical Phrase Structure Grammar. 3. Syntactic Categories. 4. Rules and Principles. 5. Semantics. 6. Some Basic Structures. 7. Some Further Structures. 8. Raising and Control. 9. Unbounded Dependencies. 10. Anaphora. 11. Valency Alternations. 12. Some Further Phenomena. 13. Modern PSG and Other Frameworks. References. Index.