Basic Principles of Language Analysis

The following topics are discussed: The basics of morphology. Part of Speech annotation with the Universal Dependencies (UD) tags. Basic linguistic mechanisms: agreement, long distance dependences (control, binding, anaphora), diathesis alternations, multiword expressions (MWEs). Analysis of these phenomena with constraint-based formalisms and development of toy unification-based phrase structure grammars. Syntactic annotation with UD tags (UDs do not use constraints). Semi-automatic discovery of MWEs in corpora. An introductory presentation of formal semantics (first order predicate calculus, lexical semantics).