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, Crit, author.

Reckman, Hilke, author.

Hijzelendoorn, Maarten, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Other Title:

Meaning versus Grammar

Place of Publication:

Leiden, South Holland : Leiden University Press, 2014.

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 meaning; 2.2 The forms of meaning. 2.3 Scope and specification2.4 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 syntax4.3 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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