Meaning versus Grammar An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar / Crit Cremers, Maarten Hijzelendoorn, Hilke Reckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cremers, Christiaan Leonardus Joachim Maria, 1951-

Contributor:

Reckman, Hilletje Gezina Bouwke, 1978-

Hijzelendoorn, Maarten.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics--Data processing.

Semantics.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Cremers Crit : Crit Cremers is an associate professor in formal semantics and computational linguistics at Leiden University.Hijzelendoorn Maarten : Maarten Hijzelendoorn is a senior software engineer at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.Reckman Hilke : Hilke Reckman is a senior researcher in natural language processing.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-347) and index.

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ISBN:

9789400601833

9400601832

OCLC:

966803517

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access