Compositional semantics for a language of imperfect information

Hodges, Wilfrid

doi:10.1093/jigpal/5.4.539

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“…(14) and (15) Brasoveanu & Farkas (2011) build an account of Romanian cîte in a version of Independence-Friendly Logic (Hintikka 1979, Sandu 1993, Hodges 1997, Väänänen 2007. In these logics, variables are indexed with the quantifiers they are (in)dependent of/on.…”

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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions

Henderson

2014

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This paper presents an analysis of a new scope puzzle that arises through the interaction of two lesser-studied constructions, dependent indefinites and verbal pluractionality. The result is a novel account of dependent indefinites that correctly predicts their grammaticality with pluractionals by recognizing two ways of establishing the covariation they require: (i) true distributive quantifiers, and (ii) pluractional operators that structure thematic dependencies. The core insight is that both routes, while compositionally different, lead to similar output structures in Dynamic Plural Logic (DPlL) (van den Berg 1996) or its closely related alternatives (Brasoveanu 2008, Nouwen 2003, which is what dependent indefinites constrain. The analysis not only permits a better understanding of dependent indefinites in Kaqchikel, an endangered and understudied Mayan language of highland Guatemala, but it clarifies their place in a crosslinguistic typology of similar expressions (e.g., Balusu 2006, Choe 1987, Farkas 1997a, 2002, Yanovich 2005. Along the way I produce the first description and analysis of these phenomena in Kaqchikel.

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Section: The Middle Case: Romanian/hungarian Dependent Indefinitesmentioning

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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions

Henderson

2014

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“…Challenged by Hintikka's claim, Hodges (1997) provided a compositional semantics. The interpretation of a formula is a set of sets (of values for free variables).…”

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Compositionality: Its Historic Context

Janssen

2012

Oxford Handbooks Online

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The aim of this chapter is to investigate the line from the 19th century, through Frege's works, to the appearance of the principle of compositionality in modern sciences. It is shown that contextuality and compositionality were discussed at the beginnings of the 19th century, but that contextuality was favoured. Also for Frege contextuality was the basic principle and he always obeyed it. Although he argued that within a given sentence, one may distinguish a compositional structure, he would never accept compositionality as we know it. Carnap was the first to give a formulation of the compositionality principle. In logic, natural language semantics, and computer science, 'compositionality' arose independently, and is a generally accepted method, but when a phenomenon is studied that has a strong influence from context, non-compositional methods are used without hesitation. The wide support for compositionality turns out to be for practical reasons, not for principled ones.

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“…The (in)dependence-friendly logics of Hintikka (1973), Sandu (1993), Hintikka & Sandu (1996), Hodges (1997), andVäänänen (2007) seem particularly well-suited to express this kind of 'selective' covariation (a.k.a. imperfect information).…”

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“…On the logical side, Hodges (1997) and Väänänen (2007) provide a compositional semantics for (in)dependence logic that crucially relies on sets of variable assignments to encode dependencies.…”

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The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts

Brașoveanu

2012

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Providing a compositional interpretation procedure for discourses in which descriptions of complex dependencies between interrelated objects are incrementally built is a key challenge for formal theories of natural language interpretation. This paper examines several quantificational phenomena and argues that we need richly structured contexts of interpretation that are passed on between different parts of the same sentence and also across sentential boundaries to account for these phenomena. The main contribution of the paper is showing how we can add structure to contexts in an incremental way, starting with the basic notion of context in classical first-order logic, i.e., interpretation contexts formalized as single total variable assignments.

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Compositional semantics for a language of imperfect information

Cited by 254 publications

References 15 publications

Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions

Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions

Compositionality: Its Historic Context

The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts

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