Dr. K. Scott Ferguson

• IPS: Interactive Parsing System (Try it!)
  • Maintenance, Testing and Verification
  • Number Expressions (e.g., "forty-five million six hundred thousand and fifty-three")
  • Coordination
  • Merger and Projection
  • WWW Tools
  • Speech Input/Output
  • Translation
• Syntactic Parsing
  • Principle-based (GB/Minimalist) parsers
  • Morphophonological analysis
  • Statistical methods
• Computational Complexity
  • Complexity theory and natural language computation (I-language)
  • Complexity theory and parsing systems
• Minimalist Syntax
  • English, Icelandic, and polysynthetic syntax
  • Feature-relativized Shortest Move/Minimal Link
  • Case-related/driven Movement: subject and object shift, noun incorporation
  • VP Shells and thematic relations

• 1997. "Coordination in an Incremental GB Parser". GLOW Newsletter 38, 82-83. (presented at GLOW 20 Workshop in Rabat, Morocco)
• 1997. "Deducing the Invisibility of PP Nodes from Case Checking and Full Interpretation". GLOW Newsletter 38, 22-23. (presented at GLOW 20 in Rabat, Morocco)
• 1996. "VP Shells and the Abstract Clitic Hypothesis". Ms., University of Geneva. (presented at MIT)
• 1996. A Feature-Relativized Shortest Move Requirement. Doctoral dissertation. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1996. "Shortest Move and Object Case Checking." Minimal Ideas, ed. Werner Abraham, Samuel D. Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and C. Jan-Wouter Zwart. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1995. "Defining 'Shortest Move'." Ms., Harvard University. (with Erich M. Groat)
• 1994. "Defining 'Shortest Move'." GLOW Newsletter 32, 24-25. (with Erich M. Groat, presented at GLOW 17 in Vienna, Austria)
• 1994. "Deriving the Invisibility of PP Nodes for Command from Agr+P Case Checking." Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 4, ed. Samuel D. Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Susumu Kuno, assoc. ed. Steve Peter, 30-36.
• 1993. "Notes on the Shortest Move Metric and Object Checking." Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 3, ed. Höskuldur Thráinsson, Samuel D. Epstein, and Susumu Kuno, assoc. ed. Steve Peter, 65-80.
• 1992. "Particles, Derived Verbs, and the Abstract Clitic Hypothesis." Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 1, ed. Susumu Kuno and Höskuldur Thráinsson, 129-141.

Email:

ferguson@latl.unige.ch

Tel: (041) (022) 705 73 20

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K. Scott Ferguson
Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage
Département de Linguistique
Université de Genčve
2, rue de Candole
CH-1211, Genčve 4
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