Open AccessPredicate complements
Author(s) -
Frank Van Eynde
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2008.15
Subject(s) - predicate (mathematical logic) , computer science , head driven phrase structure grammar , linguistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , generative grammar
This paper presents the canonical HPSG treatment of predicate complements and points out a number of problems with it. Then it proposes an alternative and shows how it avoids or solves the problems with the canonical treatment.