Gradient HPSG

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.11

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Prevailing grammatical frameworks treat grammaticality as a binary concept, despite strong experimental evidence suggesting it is better understood as a gradient notion. This highlights a serious disconnect between linguistic theory and empirical data. While a few truly gradient frameworks have been proposed to bridge the gap, none have been developed within a constraint-based formalism – an approach particularly well-suited for modeling gradient grammaticality. This work formally introduces a gradient version of HPSG and subsequently employs it to analyze acceptability judgment data on unlike coordination phenomena in Turkish, which display distinctly gradient patterns.

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2024-12-11

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Şenşekerci, Berke. 2024. Gradient HPSG. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 173–192. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2024.11) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/960) (Accessed March 29, 2025.)