The proper treatment of word order in HPSG
Karel Oliva · 1992
This paper describes a possibility of expressing ordering constraints among non-sister constituents in binary branching syntactic structures on a local basis, supported by viewing the binary branching structure as a list (rather than a tree) of constitutents within HPSG-style grammars. The core idea of such a description of ordering is constituted by creating a type lattice for lists. The possibilities of expressing different approaches to word order in the framework are briefly discussed, exemplified and compared to other methods.