Variation and Formal Theories of Language: HPSG

摘要: HPSG conceptualizes language as a system of signs, or form-meaning pairings. Taking ‘meaning’ to include social meaning is the first step modeling sociolinguistic variation. well suited for this task because it lacks cross-derivational constraints; can capture detailed information and generalizations at varying degrees granularity; ‘performance-plausible’ theory linguistic competence. Attaching probabilities occurrence signs in addition produces model corpus frequency. Making those dependent on context extends ‘internal’ constraints variation their effect evaluation variables.