At 11:22 AM 3/9/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Nik:
>>>d4. Related to d1: HPSG doesn't seem to accommodate non-canonical
>>>constructions easily, because all structures have to be sanctioned by a
>>>general rule.
>>
>>Actually, isn't HPSG admitting constructions now, a la Construction Grammar?
>## Is it? Gosh! When? Where? How?
Try Sag's Relative Clauses paper in JL (but I'm not sure about this). Also
Ackerman and Webelhuth's book _A theory of predicates_. The latter is
non-canonical HPSG but purports to be HPSG nevertheless.
Nik.
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