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

该项目使用两种语法框架（HPSG和极简程序）探索远距离依赖关系，特别是疑问句和关系结构。第一步，将通过语料库分析和与母语人士的查询来改善数据状况。这将首次产生一个广泛的经验和理论覆盖范围，以及对法语长距离依赖关系的最完整的描述，到目前为止，这一领域的描述只是零散的。该项目的超额目标是回答这样一个问题：为了解释大量数据样本中包含的法语长距离依赖关系现象，语法描述的元素必须有多复杂、多数量和结构特异性。所选择的框架呈现了可能解释的两个极端。极简程序需要通过原子单元（具有头部状态的词汇项）进行建模，这些单元与非常局部范围的非常一般的语法原则相互作用。与结构语法所主张的类似，HPSG扩展了术语“词汇”，并且可以在必要时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。在构式语法的解释中，这可能导致构式族的形成，正如Sag（2010）所要求的那样。在项目筹资期结束时，计划对这两种分析进行详细比较。

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.