Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

Partee, Barbara H.; Meulen, Alice G.B. ter; Wall, Robert E.

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“…The distinction between content and structure is admittedly vague, and can only be made clearer based on particular formal 165 theories of syntax and semantics -recall compositionality's theory-dependence (Partee et al 1990). We could go even further and observe that, at least in formal approaches to grammar, the distinction vanishes, and one is left with a purely syntactic analysis of meaning in some logical language.…”

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The Processing Consequences of Compositionality

Baggio

Lambalgen

Hagoort

2012

Oxford Handbooks Online

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“…The trouble with the methodological argument is that compositionality is highly theory 95 dependent (Partee et al 1990). Ideally, when looking for an explanation of a given linguistic phenomenon, one takes the syntax and the semantics to be fully specified formal systems.…”

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The Processing Consequences of Compositionality

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Lambalgen

Hagoort

2012

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“…First of all, we provide the abstract definition of language, which is similar to the one in [6]. Different alphabets (e.g.…”

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Total Lexicalism and GASGrammars: A Direct Way to Semantics

Alberti

Balogh

Kleiber

et al. 2003

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

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Abstract. A new sort of generative grammar (Sec2) will be demonstrated which is more radically "lexicalist" than any earlier one (Sec1). It is a modified Unification Categorial Grammar [1][2][3][4] from which even the principal syntactic "weapon" of CGs, Function Application, has been omitted. What has remained is lexical sign and the mere technique of unification as the engine of combining signs. The computation thus requires no usual linguistic technique (e.g. Move, Merge, traces [5], Function Application [6]); which promises a straightforward implementation of GASG in Prolog. Our parser decides whether a Hungarian sentence is grammatical and creates its (practically English) DRS (Sec3). DRT, UCG and Total LexicalismA "totally lexicalist" generative grammar will be demonstrated in this paper. The first motivation of the enterprise was the stubborn problem of compositionality in DRT (Discourse Representation Theory; e.g. [7], [4]).DRT is a successful attempt to extend the sentence-level Montagovian modeltheoretic semantics to the discourse level. Its crucial proposal is that a level of discourse representation must be inserted in between the language to be interpreted and the world model serving as the context of interpretation. The insertion of this level, however, has given rise to a double problem of compositionality (language → DRS, DRS → world model), at least according to the very strict sense of the Fregean principle of compositionality introduced by Montague [8]. As for the DRS → world model transition Zeevat [2] has provided a compositional solution, which could successfully be built in the new version of DRT [4]. As for the language → DRS transition, however, the authors admit (p195) that no (properly) compositional solution could be found in the last two decades.The failure of elaborating a properly compositional solution to the language → DRS transition arises from the fundamental incompatibility of the strictly hierarchically organized generative syntactic phrase structures (PS; e.g. [9], [5]) with the basically unordered DRSs. Nowadays [2], [4] some kind of Categorial Grammar (CG) is held to promise the best chance for capturing the language → DRS transition in a properly compositional manner. The reason lies in the fact that, in a CG system, language-specific information (about how words can combine to form constituents, and then sentences), stored in PS rules in the

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“…Remember that by Vacuous Quantification (Partee, ter Meulen & Ward 1990), any operator that does not bind a variable constitutes an ill-formed expression that is uninterpretable in semantics. From this characterisation, then, one expects to find some consequences.…”

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Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

Fábregas

2016

Borealis

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ABSTRACT. This article presents the main facts about how information structure is syntactically codified in Spanish, with particular attention to the syntax of topics and foci. These facts will be used to assess whether cartographic and minimalist approaches can, in their pure version, account precisely for this set of facts in a predictive way. We discuss the taxonomy of topics and foci, the evidence for their syntactic position, their A'-movement properties, the asymmetries between left-and right-dislocated elements, and the availability of information structure inside subordinate clauses.Keywords. topic; focus; information structure; embedded contexts; dislocation; root clause RESUMEN. Este artículo presenta los principales datos acerca de la codificación sintáctica de la estructura informativa en español, con especial atención a la sintaxis de tópicos y focos. Estos hechos serán utilizados para evaluar si, en su forma más pura, las teorías cartográficas o minimistas pueden explicar estos hechos de una forma predictiva. El trabajo discute la taxonomía de tópicos y focos, qué datos hay para identificar su posición sintáctica, sus propiedades de movimiento A', las asimetrías entre elementos dislocados a izquierda y derecha, y la posibilidad de introducir estructura informativa marcada en el interior de las oraciones subordinadas.

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Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

Cited by 276 publications

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The Processing Consequences of Compositionality

The Processing Consequences of Compositionality

Total Lexicalism and GASGrammars: A Direct Way to Semantics

Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals

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