Subcategorization Lists in Immediate Dominance Rules
Thomas E. Hukari · 1989
This paper explores the use of subcategorization lists or 'stacks' in a version of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) which is otherwise conceptually very close to Gazdar, Klein, Pullum and Sag (1985, hereafter, GKPS). While the use of list structures in extensions of GPSG is not new (cf. Pollard, 1984; Pollard and Sag, 1987), the present paper develops list-like feature structures in the context of Gazdar et al. (1988), where categories are set-theoretic objects-partial functions-which ar~ constrained in various ways by statements in a formal constraint language Le.