The syntactic process / Mark Steedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steedman, Mark.

Series:

Language, speech, and communication.

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 330 p. )

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Summary:

"In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without forming any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to develop a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning." "The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields."--Jacket.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-319) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780585227559

0585227551

9780262284219

0262284219

OCLC:

44960573

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08464 hdl