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This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a
precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by
data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from
the micro-conversational - e.g. self-repair at the word level - to
macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the
characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on
extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on
evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of
language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening,
middle game, and closing stages of conversation. it also offers a
new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as
quanitifcation and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges
orthodox views of grammar by aruging that, unless we wish to
excluse from analysis a large body of frequently occurrring words
and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system
that characterizes types of talk in interaction.
Interrogative constructions are the linguistic forms by which
questions are expressed. Their analysis is of great interest to
linguists, as well as to computer scientists, human-computer
interface designers, and philosophers. Interrogative constructions
have played a central role in the development of modern syntactic
theory. Nonetheless, to date most syntactic work has taken place
quite separately from formal semantic and pragmatic work on
interrogatives. Although there has by now been a significant amount
of work on interrogatives across a variety of languages, there
exist few syntactic and semantic treatments that provide a
comprehensive account of a wide range of interrogative
constructions and uses in a single language.
This book closes the gap in research on this subject. By developing
the frameworks of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and
Situation Semantics, the authors provide an account that rigorously
integrates syntactic, semantic, and contextual dimensions of
interrogatives. The challenge of providing exhaustive coverage of
the interrogative constructions of English, including various
constructions that occur solely in dialogue interaction, leads to
new insights about a variety of contentious theoretical issues.
These include matters of semantic ontology, the quantificational
status of wh-phrases, the semantic effect of wh-fronting, the
status of constructions in grammatical theory, the integration of
illocutionary information in the grammar, and the nature of
ellipsis resolution in dialogue. The account is stated with
sufficient rigor to enable fairly direct computational
implementation.
This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a
precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by
data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from
the micro-conversational -- e.g. self-repair at the word level --
to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the
characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on
extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on
evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of
language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening,
middle game, and closing stages of conversation. It also offers a
new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as
quantification and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges
orthodox views of grammar by arguing that, unless we wish to
exclude from analysis a large body of frequently occurring words
and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system
that characterizes types of talk in interaction.
Interrogative constructions are the linguistic forms by which
questions are expressed. Their analysis is of great interest to
linguists, as well as to computer scientists, human-computer
interface designers, and philosophers. Interrogative constructions
have played a central role in the development of modern syntactic
theory. Nonetheless, to date most syntactic work has taken place
quite separately from formal semantic and pragmatic work on
interrogatives. Although there has by now been a significant amount
of work on interrogatives across a variety of languages, there
exist few syntactic and semantic treatments that provide a
comprehensive account of a wide range of interrogative
constructions and uses in a single language.
This book closes the gap in research on this subject. By developing
the frameworks of Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and
Situation Semantics, the authors provide an account that rigorously
integrates syntactic, semantic, and contextual dimensions of
interrogatives. The challenge of providing exhaustive coverage of
the interrogative constructions of English, including various
constructions that occur solely in dialogue interaction, leads to
new insights about a variety of contentious theoretical issues.
These include matters of semantic ontology, the quantificational
status of wh-phrases, the semantic effect of wh-fronting, the
status of constructions in grammatical theory, the integration of
illocutionary information in the grammar, and the nature of
ellipsis resolution in dialogue. The account is stated with
sufficient rigor to enable fairly direct computational
implementation.
Ideas from theoretical computer science continue to have an
important influence on areas of philosophy and linguistics. The
papers contained in this volume by some of the most influential
computer scientists, linguists, logicians and philosophers of today
cover subjects such as channel theory, presupposition and
constraints, the modeling of discourse, and belief. The
contributors include: Jon Barwise, who shows how the ideas of
channel theory fit in with non-monotonic logic; Jelle Gerbrandy
shows how ideas from dynamic logic can be used to study the notion
of common knowledge among groups of agents; Wiebe van der Hoek and
Maarten de Rijke provide ideas from theoretical computer science to
a more philosophical area, belief revision; Rohit Parikh proposes a
solution to one of the problems of belief revision; Paul Skokowski
discusses Fred Dretske's theory of content; and Thomas Ede
Zimmermann discusses the notions of discourse referent and
information states.
This volume brings together papers from linguists, logicians, and
computer scientists from 13 countries (Armenia, Denmark, France,
Georgia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK,
and USA). This collection aims to serve as a catalyst for new
interdisciplinary developments in language, logic and computation
and to introduce new ideas from the expanded European academic
community. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, the papers
included in this volume cover such topics as formal semantics of
natural language, dynamic semantics, channel theory, formal syntax
of natural language, formal language theory, corpus-based methods
in computational linguistics, computational semantics, syntactic
and semantic aspects of l-calculus, non-classical logics, and a
fundamental problem in predicate logic.
This volume brings together papers from linguists, logicians, and
computer scientists from 13 countries (Armenia, Denmark, France,
Georgia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK,
and USA). This collection aims to serve as a catalyst for new
interdisciplinary developments in language, logic and computation
and to introduce new ideas from the expanded European academic
community. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, the papers
included in this volume cover such topics as formal semantics of
natural language, dynamic semantics, channel theory, formal syntax
of natural language, formal language theory, corpus-based methods
in computational linguistics, computational semantics, syntactic
and semantic aspects of l-calculus, non-classical logics, and a
fundamental problem in predicate logic.
Ideas from theoretical computer science continue to have an
important influence on areas of philosophy and linguistics. The
papers contained in this volume by some of the most influential
computer scientists, linguists, logicians and philosophers of today
cover subjects such as channel theory, presupposition and
constraints, the modeling of discourse, and belief. The
contributors include: Jon Barwise, who shows how the ideas of
channel theory fit in with non-monotonic logic; Jelle Gerbrandy
shows how ideas from dynamic logic can be used to study the notion
of common knowledge among groups of agents; Wiebe van der Hoek and
Maarten de Rijke provide ideas from theoretical computer science to
a more philosophical area, belief revision; Rohit Parikh proposes a
solution to one of the problems of belief revision; Paul Skokowski
discusses Fred Dretske's theory of content; and Thomas Ede
Zimmermann discusses the notions of discourse referent and
information states.
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