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Continuations and Natural Language (Hardcover)
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Continuations and Natural Language (Hardcover)
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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