[developers] Fwd: HPSG implementations

[Valia Kordoni]

OK, Stefan! It's your book, hence your decisions.

Stabler's latest international course was in ESSLLI 2009 where 
together with Edward Keenan they were trying to address the usual 
and often mentioned in the literature critique 
about the lack of mathematical rigor of Chomskyan theories. You
might want to have a look at

http://esslli2009.labri.fr/course.php?id=111

I am not trying to promote this specific work, obviously. I am just trying 
to say that one should be very careful and know as much of the literature 
as possible, when big statements are about to be made.

Good luck with the book!
Cheers,
Valia

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, [UTF-8] Stefan Müller wrote:

> Hi Valia,
>
>> I thought that 'wars' were trendy till the end of the '90s,
>
> http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/procpap-final.pdf
>
> See page 2.
>
> This paper is "to appear" for a long time now. Maybe it is from the
> '90s. =;-)
>
> Sproat and Lappins "Challenge" on the Linguist List was in 2005.
>
>> and that the
>> nots were dedicated to cross-fertilisation of fields, theories, ideas,
>> etc. :-)
>
> That is what I do in the grammar theory text book. I try to show that
> there is a converging consensus in many areas. Examples: Verb position
> in German (GB, GPSG, HPSG), phrasal constructions (CxG, Cognitive
> Grammar, Simpler Syntax, HPSG, LFG), inheritance (HPSG, CxG, Simpler
> Syntax, LFG).
>
> What I argue is that formalization is good for everybody. Including
> GB/MP and CxG despite publications to the contrary by Chomsky and Goldberg.
>
> I think this is important, since there are people like Ten Hacken who
> argue from a philosophy of science view point that GB and GPSG are
> belonging to different types of sciences: empirical and formal.
>
> @book{TenHacken2007a,
> author = {Pius {ten Hacken}},
> title = {Chomskyan Linguistics and Its Competitors},
> publisher = {Equinox Publishing Ltd.},
> address = {London},
> year = 2007
> }
>
> See the end of Chapter 3 of my book.
>
>> http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stabler
>
> How could I forget about this? I even sat in an ESSLLI course of his
> .... 14 years ago ...
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>        Stefan
>
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