SYNTAX WITHOUT TRANSFORMATIONS

The course deals with language description tools and options of implementation offered by the theory of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, a non-transformational linguistic theory, describing linguistic phenomena declaratively, without transformations.
Possibilities of the formalism will be illustrated by example solutions to some phenomena (valency, agreement, word order) and their comparison with solutions available in other theories.
Interested students will be encouraged to implement and test a toy grammar in a grammar-writing environment.