Long-distance Dependencies in French: Comparative Analyses (HPSG and the Minimalist Program)

该项目使用两个语法框架(HPSG和最简方案)来探索远距离依赖，特别是在疑问句和关系句中。在第一步，将通过语料库分析和与本族语使用者的询问来改善数据情况。这将第一次产生广泛的经验和理论覆盖范围，并最大限度地完整地描述法语中的远程依赖，这是一个到目前为止还只被零散描述的领域。该项目的超越性目标是回答这样一个问题，即句法描述的要素必须有多复杂、多和特定于结构，以便解释在法语中显示长距离依存关系的广泛样本数据中包含的现象。选定的框架提出了可能的解释的两个极端。最简方案要求通过原子单元(具有中心语状态的词条)进行建模，原子单元与非常局部范围的非常一般的句法原则相互作用。与构式语法所声称的类似，HPSG扩展了术语“词典”，如果需要，可以制定复杂的描述单元，其中已经定义了更大的星座和约束范围。在构式语法内的解释中，这可以导致构造族的形成，正如SAG(2010)所要求的那样。在项目资助期结束时，计划对这两项分析进行详细比较。

The project explores long-distance dependencies, especially in interrogative and relative constructions, using two grammatical frameworks (HPSG and the Minimalist Program).In a first step, the data situation will be improved through corpus analyses and inquiries with native speakers. This will yield, for the first time, a broad empirical and theoretical coverage and a maximally complete description of long-distance dependencies in French, an area that has been only fragmentarily described up to now. The overreaching objective of the project is to answer the question of how complex, numerous and construction-specific the elements of syntactic description must be in order to explain the phenomena contained in a broad sample of data that show long-distance-dependencies in French. The selected frameworks present two extreme poles of possible interpretations. The Minimalist Program requires modeling by means of atomic units (lexical entries with head status), which interact with very general syntactic principles of a very local range. Similarly to what is claimed by construction grammar, HPSG has expanded the term "lexicon" and can formulate, if necessary, complex description units in which larger constellations and the range of constraints are already defined. In an interpretation within construction grammar, this can lead to the formulation of a construction family, as required in Sag (2010). At the end of the project funding period, a detailed comparison of the two analyses is planned to be available.