Meaning Versus Grammar
Titel
Meaning Versus Grammar
Subtitel
An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar
ISBN
9789400601833
Uitvoering
eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
Aantal pagina's
353
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
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Inhoudsopgave
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"TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 0. INTRODUCTION 11 0.1 A Language Machine 11 0.2 Language and computability 16 0.3 The book 21 1. SYNTAX: the game of recursion and discontinuity 25 1.1 The need for syntax 25 1.2 Forms of Dutch 30 1.3 The task for syntax 34 1.4 The logic and the algebra of lists, flags, types and modes 41 1.5 The calculi 60 1.6 The case for Dutch 71 1.6.1 General Format 71 1.7 The grammar of discontinuity and coordination 94 1.8 Parsing the syntax 114 1.9 Generating by syntax: agendas and linearization 138 2. SEMANTICS: the game of scope and intensionality 153 2.1 The ways of meaning 153 2.2 The forms of meaning 157 2.3 Scope and Specification 162 2.4 Intensionality and semantic dependency 175 2.5 Events and states: reification of predication 182 2.6 Exploiting Logical Form for Parsing 196 2.7 Generating from Logic 217 3. LEXICON: the language’s encyclopaedia and database 229 3.1 Storing knowledge of language 229 3.2 Modes of lexical knowledge 242 3.3 Unification: powering grammar conservatively 259 3.4 The making of the lexicon 265 3.5 Disclosing the lexicon: object-orientation and speed for semantic generation 284 3.6 The lexicon while parsing 298 4. GRAMMAR: the reward of incompleteness 301 4.1 The three duals of grammar 301 4.2 The conservativity of syntax 302 4.3 The destructivity of semantics 308 4.4 The denial of structure 314 4.5 The mismatch of structure and meaning 316 4.6 The lexicon as an oracle: the case of behalve 324 4.7 The incompleteness of grammar 327 4.8 The fruit of incompleteness 329 REFERENCES 333 INDEX 349 " TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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
1.6.1 General Format
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 meaning
2.2 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 parsing
4. 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

Meaning Versus Grammar

An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar

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Meaning versus Grammar 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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Auteurs

Crit Cremers

Crit Cremers is an associate professor in formal semantics and computational linguistics at Leiden University.

Maarten Hijzelendoorn

Maarten Hijzelendoorn is a senior software engineer at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.

Hilke Reckman

Hilke Reckman is a senior researcher in natural language processing.