1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation
exhibited by English FILLER-GAP CONSTRUCTIONS. It demonstrates that a detailed, fully …

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

There is a construction in English, exemplified by how long a bridge, which is so irregular
that it has been named the Big Mess Construction, see Berman (1974). This paper first …

University of Leuven This chapter shows how nominal structures are treated in HPSG. The
introduction puts the discussion in the broader context of the NP vs. DP debate and …

This dissertation investigates the structure of clauses and how key subparts of them-the
arguments of their predicates-are realized in the Polynesian language, Tongan. The leading …

Of special relevance for the NP vs. DP debate are nominals in which the determiner has
other values for number, gender, case and/or person than the noun, for depending on …

Since the introduction of the X-bar principles in syntax it is commonly assumed that
adpositions are complement-taking heads of PPs. While this treatment is well motivated for …

This paper explores the interaction of regularity and idiosyncracy in the formation of
nominals. It treats both nominals whose formation is highly regular, such as red box, and …

Sign-Based Construction Grammar (sbcg) is, on the one hand, a formalized version of
Berkeley Construction Grammar (bcg), and, on the other hand, a further development of …