With Carl Pollard, he has written several books that introduce and develop the syntactic theory known as head-driven phrase structure grammar ( HPSG ).
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Gazdar defined Linear Indexed Grammars and pioneered, along with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag, the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars.
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The phrase structure grammars of the Chomskyan tradition ( government and binding theory and the minimalist program ) are primary examples of theories that apply this understanding of phrases.
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The remnants in these examples are constituents in constituency grammars ( = phrase structure grammars ), since every individual word is by definition a constituent in constituency grammars.
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This is in keeping with X'Bar Theory of Phrase Structure Grammar, with Larson's tree structure using the empty Verb to which the V is raised.
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His early work was as a member of the research teams that invented and developed HPSG as well as generalized phrase structure grammar, HPSG's immediate intellectual predecessor.
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The development of head-driven phrase structure grammar ( HPSG ) and lexical functional grammar ( LFG ) reflect these debates : these are both strongly lexicalist and representational systems.
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar ( HPSG ) introduces a handful of such schemata which aim to subsume all such valence related rules as well as other rules not related to valence.
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Modern linguistic formalisms that work in terms of lattices of linguistic signs, such as head-driven phrase structure grammar, similarly begin to separate out an explicit level of paradigmatic organization.
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Reading Dutch linguistics and general linguistics Beeken completed her master's degree in 1983 receiving a magna cum laude for her thesis'Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar : theorie en praktijk '.