This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

In this book, I presented analyses for auxiliaries, subject and object control verbs, subject
and object raising verbs, copula constructions, subject and object predicative constructions …

This volume makes a case for a critical reassessment of the wide-spread view that syntax
can be reduced to tree structures, arguing for concepts that are defined in terms of linear …

This thesis proposes a robust, hybrid, deep-syntatic dependency-based parsing architecture
and presents its implementation and evaluation. The architecture and the implementation …

In this paper I discuss several possible analyses for constituent order in German.
Approaches that assume continuous constituents are compared with an approach that …

This dissertation examines the structure and the meaning of coordination structures. In the
realm of syntax, it is often assumed that coordination structures come in different flavors and …

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a declarative and monostratal version of
Generative Grammar, in which linguistic expressions have a single relatively simple …

This discussion note compares several current linguistic theories: at the extreme ends of the
current views are minimalist theories, which restrict themselves to the binary branching …

This chapter discusses local ordering variants and how they can be analyzed in HPSG. So-
called scrambling, the local reordering of arguments of a head, can be accounted for by …

This paper presents a design pattern for handling argument structure and offers a concrete
operationalization of this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar. Argument structure …