Some remarks on trends in HPSG
Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers · 2000
Background: What is an HPSG grammar? A recent formulation (Ginzburg and Sag, in preparation, pp. 21f): The grammar of a language thus consists of (minimally) a specication of: The set of types that play a role in the grammar { a linguistic ontology which features are appropriate for each type what type of value is appropriate for each such feature, and all the constraints that must be true of instances of particular types (These are usually referred to simply as ‘type constraints’.) 2 Two issues The role of linguistic data structures and