HPSG Grammars of Hebrew and Arabic

Project description

Objective: To develop wide coverage HPSG grammars of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic.

Researchers: In Haifa, Petter Haugereid, Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux and Shuly Wintner. In collaboration with Nurit Melnik, the Open University.

Status: Complete

Funding: Israeli Science Foundation (grant 505/11).

Abstract

The main objective of this project is to develop parallel large-scale precision grammars for two related yet different languages, namely Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic. The grammars will cover the most frequent syntactic phenomena in both languages, but also rarer phenomena that are of linguistic interest. Furthermore, the grammars will be linked with morphological processors that will guarantee broad coverage and robustness of the ensuing parsers.

Resources

The grammars are available for download. They are distributed under the MIT License.

Publications

• Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Representing argument structure. Journal of Linguistics 53(4):701-750, November 2017. 📖

• Tali Arad Greshler, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Seeking control in Modern Standard Arabic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1):90, 2017. 📖

• Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Reference patterns in subjunctive complement clauses of Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of the Joint 2016 Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar, pages 4-22, Warsaw, Poland, July 2016. 📖

• Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Development of Maximally Reusable Grammars: Parallel Development of Hebrew and Arabic Grammars. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 27-40, Singapore, August 2015. 📖

• Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Tali Arad Greshler, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Hebrew Verbal Multi-Word Expressions. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, pages 122-135, Singapore, August 2015. 📖

• Petter Haugereid, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner. Nonverbal Predicates in Modern Hebrew. Proceedings of HPSG-2013, pages 69-89, Berlin, Germany, August 2013. 📖