CONTINUATIONS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE torrent

Author: Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
Edition: UK ed. edition
Publication Date: January 27, 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0199575029
ISBN-13: 978-0199575022
Pages: 320 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 2.7M

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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.


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