Hello everyone. Here are the lecture notes. You can download them as separate files, or get them in two files (as CB and MM notes).

Combinatory Categorial Grammar and Linguistic Diversity

ESSLLI 2005, Edinburgh

Cem Bozsahin and Mark McConville

• Substantive aspects (CB)
• Formal aspects (MM)
• CCG and Implicational Universals (MM)
• Constructions (CB)
• Ergative and Accusative Languages (CB)
• CCG and Markedness (MM)
• Appendix: Tagalog: Ergative? Accusative? Both? Neither? (CB)
• References (CB)

• CB's notes in one file
• MM's notes in one file

- Cem and Mark.

You can download and play with OpenCCG from its website. Please use CVS version to get the latest files; the March 2005 release of OpenCCG does not have some grammars you might want to look at.

For that, do the following:

1. Download and install Java SDK 1.5 from its download site. (called JDK 5.0 there)

2. Install cvs from its website.

3. Run cvs to get the most recent version of OpenCCG:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/openccg login

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/openccg checkout openccg

Follow the instructions in README file of OpenCCG to get it up and running.

ALTERNATIVELY,

You can use limited edition OPENCCG installed in ESSLLI site (as of Wednesday 10th, 17.00). It is available on a local linux machine called helios. Here's what you need to do:

• 1. Go to computer rooms G.46 or G.47
• 2. Login to XP machines as guest
• 3. Run 'telnet telnet'
• 4. In the login window that appears on the screen, type ID & password which is given for the XP PC you are sitting at.
• 5. do 'rlogin helios'
• 6. In helios, do 'cd $OPENCCG_HOME'
• 7. look under grammars dir, and go to the one you want
• 8. type 'tccg' and you are ready to parse/generate. (whew!!)

If there is any problem, try to find me or local admin Iain McCrone (room 1.33) for help (thanks Iain!).

Enjoy.

-cem