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Continuations and Natural Language (Paperback): Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan

Continuations and Natural Language (Paperback)

Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan

Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 53

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This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning. Summarizing more than a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan put forward the Continuation Hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation. In Part I, the authors develop a continuation-based theory of scope and quantificational binding and provide an explanation for order sensitivity in scope-related phenomena such as scope ambiguity, crossover, superiority, reconstruction, negative polarity licensing, dynamic anaphora, and donkey anaphora. Part II outlines an innovative substructural logic for reasoning about continuations and proposes an analysis of the compositional semantics of adjectives such as 'same' in terms of parasitic and recursive scope. It also shows that certain cases of ellipsis should be treated as anaphora to a continuation, leading to a new explanation for a subtype of sluicing known as sprouting. The book makes a significant contribution to work on scope, reference, quantification, and other central aspects of semantics and will appeal to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 53
Release date: November 2014
Authors: Chris Barker (Professor and Chair in Linguistics) • Chung-chieh Shan (Professor, School of Informatics and Computing)
Dimensions: 240 x 170 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957502-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Natural language & machine translation
LSN: 0-19-957502-9
Barcode: 9780199575022

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