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The syntactic process /

"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 repr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steedman, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Colección:Language, speech, and communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grammar and Information Structure
  • Rules, Constituents, and Fragments
  • Issues of Power and Explanation
  • Grammar as an Applicative System
  • Intuitive Basis of Combinatory Categorial Grammars
  • Pure Categorial Grammar
  • Interpretation and Predicate-Argument Structure
  • Coordination
  • The Bluebird
  • The Thrush
  • The Starling
  • Explaining Constraints on Natural Grammar
  • Intrinsic Constraints Limiting the Set of Possible Rules
  • Linguistic Constraints on Unbounded Dependencies
  • Linguistic Constraints on Bounded Dependencies
  • Quantification in CCG
  • Summary: Surface Structure and Interpretation
  • Structure and Intonation
  • Surface Structure and Intonation Structure
  • Two Intonation Contours and Their Functions
  • Theme and Rheme
  • Grammar and Information Structure
  • Intonation and the Simplex Clause
  • Intonation in Complex Constructions
  • Coordination and Word Order
  • Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch
  • Word Order in Dutch
  • Verb Raising as Composition
  • Equi Verbs
  • Argument Cluster Composition
  • Relative Clauses
  • Subject and Object Extraction from Embedded Clauses
  • Dutch Main-clause Order
  • Interaction of Word order and Quantifier Scope
  • On the Rarity of Crossing Dependencies
  • Summary of the Dutch Fragment
  • Gapping and the Order of Constituents
  • Gapping and SOV Word Order
  • Gapping and VSO Word Order
  • Gapping and SVO Word Order
  • Other Elliptical Phenomena
  • A Cautious Conclusion
  • Computation and Performance
  • Combinators and Grammars
  • Why Categories and Combinators?