The ‘Specifier’ in an HPSG grammar implementation of Norwegian

Lars Hellan, Dorothee Beermann · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2006

We present a principled background for the adoption of a category 'Specifier' in the analysis of noun phrases, and show how, under certain constraining assumptions, it can be successfully employed in the implementation of an HPSG grammar of noun phrases for Norwegian.How widely the assumptions can be applied on empirical grounds cross-linguistically, is still a matter for further investigation.

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