UID:
edocfu_9959024485202883
Format:
1 online resource (354 p.)
ISBN:
94-006-0183-2
Content:
This volume investigates the complicated relationship between grammar, computation, and meaning in natural languages. It details conditions under which meaning-driven processing of natural language is feasible, discusses an operational and accessible implementation of the grammatical cycle for Dutch, and offers analyses of a number of further conjectures about constituency and entailment in natural language.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 0.1 A language machine -- 0.2 Language and computability -- 0.3 The book -- 1. SYNTAX: the game of recursion and discontinuity -- 1.1 The need for syntax -- 1.2 Forms of Dutch -- 1.3 The task for syntax -- 1.4 The logic and the algebra of lists, flags, types and modes -- 1.5 The calculi -- 1.6 The case for Dutch -- 1.7 The grammar of discontinuity and coordination -- 1.8 Parsing the syntax -- 1.9 Generating by syntax: agendas and linearization -- 2. SEMANTICS: the game of scope and intensionality -- 2.1 The ways of meaning2.2 The forms of meaning -- 2.3 Scope and specification -- 2.4 Intensionality and semantic dependency -- 2.5 Events and states: reification of predication -- 2.6 Exploiting logical form for parsing -- 2.7 Generating from logic -- 3. LEXICON: the language's encyclopaedia and database -- 3.1 Storing knowledge of language -- 3.2 Modes of lexical knowledge -- 3.3 Unification: powering grammar conservatively -- 3.4 The making of the lexicon -- 3.5 Disclosing the lexicon: object-orientation and speed for semantic generation -- 3.6 The lexicon while parsing4. GRAMMAR: the reward of incompleteness -- 4.1 The three duals of grammar -- 4.2 The conservativity of syntax -- 4.3 The destructivity of semantics -- 4.4 The denial of structure -- 4.5 The mismatch of structure and meaning -- 4.6 The lexicon as an oracle: the case of 'behalve' -- 4.7 The incompleteness of grammar -- 4.8 The fruit of incompleteness -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8728-212-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789400601833
