On Relations of Constituency and Dependency Grammars

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a di erent perspective on the meta-level grammar of Dras (1999a) in which the meta level models dependencies and the object level models constituency. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, additionally giving a solution to a problem in Synchronous TAG, and gives appropriate analyses of subject-auxiliary inversion. This and other evidence suggests the integration of dependency and constituency is a useful avenue to explore.