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From: uczpanc@ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Carrick)
Subject: New book announcement
Message-ID: <1995Jul28.152410.22022@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 15:24:10 GMT
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** New Book Announcement from UCL Press**

 A COURSE IN GENERALIZED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR 
 (GPSG)

Paul Bennett 
UMIST

Publication date: June 1995
1-85728-217-5 240pp 
UK#14.95  PB

Studies in Computational Linguistics Series

"Paul Bennett has managed to present the key ideas clearly and in a genuinely 
introductory and accessible way. The book will be of great value to students 
of linguistics and neighbouring disciplines (including Computer Science) who 
need some background in the theory of phrase structure and unification based 
grammar formalisms, either for its own sake or for the purpose of implementing 
grammars for natural language processing."

Dr Doug Arnold, University of Essex 


DESCRIPTION:

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) has become a major syntactic 
theory in linguistics and in this important book receives its first 
comprehensive tutorial treatment. "A course in GPSG" assumes an introductory 
knowledge of syntactic theory and covers all the main constructs of the 
grammar. A substantial part of English grammar is covered in a precise and 
formal manner using a large number of illustrative tree diagrams. Recent
issues and developments are examined and an important final chapter outlines 
the importance of GPSG to computational linguistics.

This first in-depth textbook devoted to GPSG will be invaluable to all 
students of intermediate and advanced courses in syntax and the structure of 
English. It will become a standard textbook for linguists from the advanced 
undergraduate onwards. 

THE AUTHOR:

Paul Bennett is a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics, 
UMIST, and a member of the Centre for Computational Linguistics.

CONTENTS

Preface; List of abbreviations

Introduction

Basics of syntactic structure

The ID/LP format for grammars

Features and subcategorization

The Head Feature Convention

Feature instantiation and related topics

More on English structure

The Foot Feature Principle

The Control Agreement Principle

Metarules

Unbounded dependencies

Co-ordination

Current issues

Relevance to computational linguistics

Conclusion

References; Index


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