Ivan say

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Ivan A. Sag (born November 9, 1949 in Alliance , Ohio - † September 10, 2013 ) was an American linguist . He was a professor of linguistics at Stanford University .

With Carl Pollard , he wrote several books that introduce and develop what is known as the Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) theory of grammar . He had also been involved in work on the Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), the immediate predecessor of the HPSG. Sag wrote numerous articles on problems in linguistic theories and analyzes.

Ivan Sags research interest included long-distance dependencies (remote dependencies) and wh-movement , the English auxiliary system, various questions on the syntax / semantics interface and the relationship between syntactic theory and language processing. His current work integrates ideas from construction grammar into the HPSG.

Sag received his PhD from MIT , where he wrote his dissertation on ellipses under the supervision of Noam Chomsky . Previously, he received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania , where he studied Indo-European , Sanskrit and sociolinguistics , and a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester .

He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 .

Works (selection)

  • Carl Pollard , Ivan A. Sag (1987): Information-based Syntax and Semantics. Volume 1: Fundamentals . Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Carl Pollard , Ivan A. Sag (1994): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ( cslipublications.stanford.edu )
  • Sag, Ivan A. 1980. Deletion and Logical Form. New York: Garland Press.
  • Gazdar, Gerald, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Ivan A. Sag. 1985. Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and Oxford: Basil Blackwell's.
  • Sag, Ivan A., Gerald Gazdar, Thomas Wasow and Steven Weisler. Coordination and How to Distinguish Categories. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (1985) 3: 117-171
  • Nunberg, Geoffrey, Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow: Idioms. Language (1994) 70: 491-538.
  • Pollard, Carl, and Ivan A. Sag: Anaphors in English and the Scope of Binding Theory. Linguistic Inquiry (1992) 23.2: 261-303.
  • Miller, Philip, and Ivan A. Sag: French Clitic Movement Without Clitics or Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (1997) 15: 573-639.
  • English Relative Clause Constructions. Journal of Linguistics (1997) 33.2: 431-484.
  • Jonathan Ginzburg and Ivan A. Sag: Interrogative Investigations: the form, meaning, and use of English Interrogatives. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2000.
  • Bouma, Gosse, Robert Malouf, Ivan A. Sag: Satisfying Constraints on Extraction and Adjunction. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2001) 19.1: 1-65.
  • Kim, Jong-Bok, Ivan A. Sag: French and English Negation without Head-Movement. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2002) 2/20: 339-412.
  • Sag, Ivan A., Thomas Wasow, Emily Bender: Syntactic Theory: A formal introduction. Second edition. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

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