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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural
language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related
ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been
influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain
expressions that exhibit complex effects at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning space,
while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic
meanings are mapped to enriched meanings only when required
compositionally, which avoids generalizing meanings to the worst
case. Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo show that the monadic theory
of enriched meanings offers a formally and computationally
well-defined way to tackle important challenges at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary. In particular, they develop
innovative monadic analyses of three phenomena - conventional
implicature, substitution puzzles, and conjunction fallacies - and
demonstrate that the compositional properties of monads model
linguistic intuitions about these cases particularly well. The
analyses are accompanied by exercises to aid understanding, and the
computational tools used are available on the book's companion
website. The book also contains background chapters on enriched
meanings and category theory. The volume is interdisciplinary in
nature, with insights from semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of
language, psychology, and computer science, and will appeal to
graduate students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines
with an interest in natural language understanding and
representation.
This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive
pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the
realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound
pronoun. Resumption occurs in unbounded dependencies, such as
relative clauses and questions, and in the variety of raising known
as copy raising. Processing factors may also give rise to
resumption, even in environments where it does not normally occur
in a given language. Ash Asudeh proposes a new theory of resumption
based on the use of a resource logic for semantic composition and
the typologically robust observation that resumptive pronouns are
ordinary pronouns in their morphological and lexical properties.
The framework for semantic composition is Glue Semantics and the
syntactic framework is Lexical-Functional Grammar. The author
introduces these frameworks and the concept of resource logics
accessibly and compares results and explanations with those offered
by a number of contrasting theoretical frameworks. The theory
achieves a novel unification of hitherto heterogeneous resumption
phenomena. It unifies two kinds of resumptive pronouns that are
found in unbounded dependencies - one kind behaves syntactically
like a gap, whereas the other kind does not. It also unifies
resumptive pronouns in unbounded dependencies with the obligatory
pronouns in copy raising. The theory also provides the basis for a
new understanding of processing-based resumption, both in
production and in parsing and interpretation. This book makes a
substantial contribution to the understanding of the
syntax-semantics interface, the nature of unbounded dependencies,
and linguistic variation. It is clearly written and includes
examples from a wide range of languages, such as English, Hebrew,
Irish, Swedish, and Vata. It will interest researchers in syntax
and semantics and its results are also relevant to computational
linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the logical analysis of
language. Short blurb This book is a cross-linguistic investigation
of resumptive pronouns and related resumption phenomena. The author
proposes a new theory of resumption based on the use of a resource
logic for semantic composition and the typologically robust
observation that resumptive pronouns are ordinary pronouns in their
morphological and lexical properties.
This is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and
related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of the
base of a syntactic dependency as a bound pronoun. Resumption
occurs in unbounded dependencies, such as relative clauses and
questions, and in the variety of raising known as copy raising.
Processing factors may also give rise to resumption, even in
environments where it does not normally occur in a given language.
Ash Asudeh proposes a new theory of resumption based on the use of
a resource logic for semantic composition and the typologically
robust observation that resumptive pronouns are ordinary pronouns
in their morphological and lexical properties. The framework for
semantic composition is Glue Semantics and the syntactic framework
is Lexical-Functional Grammar. The author introduces these
frameworks and the concept of resource logics accessibly and
compares results and explanations with those offered by a number of
contrasting theoretical frameworks.
The theory achieves a novel unification of hitherto heterogeneous
resumption phenomena. It unifies two kinds of resumptive pronouns
that are found in unbounded dependencies - one kind behaves
syntactically like a gap, whereas the other kind does not. It also
unifies resumptive pronouns in unbounded dependencies with the
obligatory pronouns in copy raising. The theory also provides the
basis for a new understanding of processing-based resumption, both
in production and in parsing and interpretation.
This book makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of
the syntax-semantics interface, the nature of unbounded
dependencies, and linguistic variation. It is clearly written and
includes examples from a wide range of languages, such as English,
Hebrew, Irish, Swedish, and Vata. It will interest researchers in
syntax and semantics and its results are also relevant to
computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the logical
analysis of language.
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