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This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to whether or not this view can be maintained has receded. The syntax-semantics interaction is now often seen as a process in which the syntax builds representations which, at the abstract level of logical form, are sent for interpretation to the semantics component of the language faculty. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis of direct compositionality for twenty years, this book considers whether its abandonment might have been premature and whether in fact direct compositionality is not after all a simpler and more effective conception of the grammar than the conventional account of the syntax-semantics interface in generative grammar. It contains contributions from both sides of the debate, locates the debate in the setting of a variety of formal theories, and draws on examples from a range of languages and a range of empirical phenomena.
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Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He has held positions at a number of universities, including 10 years at UCSD. His 1991 UCSC PhD thesis, Possessive Descriptions, was published in 1995 by CSLI, Stanford. He is the co-founder of semanticsarchive.net, and is co-editor of Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics.
Pauline Jacobson is Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. She has also held visiting appointments at Ohio State University and Harvard University. Her books include The Nature of Syntactic Representation, co-edited with G. K. Pullum (Reidel,1982) and The Syntax of Crossing Conference Sentences (Garland, 1980); the latter is the publicaton of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley). She is editor in chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy.
This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to whether or not this view can be maintained has receded. The syntax-semantics interaction is now often seen as a process in which the syntax builds representations which, at the abstract level of logical form, are sent for interpretation to the semantics component of the language faculty. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis of direct compositionality for twenty years, this book considers whether its abandonment might have been premature and whether in fact direct compositionality is not after all a simpler and more effective conception of the grammar than the conventional account of the syntax-semantics interface in generative grammar. It contains contributions from both sides of the debate, locates the debate in the setting of a variety of formal theories, and draws on examples from a range of languages and a range of empirical phenomena.
About the Author
Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He has held positions at a number of universities, including 10 years at UCSD. His 1991 UCSC PhD thesis, Possessive Descriptions, was published in 1995 by CSLI, Stanford. He is the co-founder of semanticsarchive.net, and is co-editor of Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics.
Pauline Jacobson is Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. She has also held visiting appointments at Ohio State University and Harvard University. Her books include The Nature of Syntactic Representation, co-edited with G. K. Pullum (Reidel,1982) and The Syntax of Crossing Conference Sentences (Garland, 1980); the latter is the publicaton of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley). She is editor in chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy.
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direct compositionality, specificational subjects, specificational sentences, concealed question interpretation, computational side effects, linguistic side effects, binding connectivity, habitual reports, combinatory analyses, natural language compositionality, book whose length, late merger, specificational pseudocleft, degree quantifier, predicational sentences, degree clause, function from assignment functions, copular phrase, conservative quantifiers, student leavers, tight orange pants, syntactic economy, tectogrammatical structure, specificational reading, paycheck pronouns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Karenina, New York, Chris Barker, Linguistic Inquiry, Cornell University, Amsterdam Colloquium, Frege's Principle, University of Amsterdam, University of Massachusetts, Reconstruction Puzzles, Trace Conversion, Academic Press, David Dowty, Santa Cruz, University of California, Barbara Partee, Danny Fox, Donald Duck, Interpretation of Language, Oxford University Press, United States, Working Papers, Cambridge University Press, Chicago Linguistic Society, Determiner Replacement New!
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The papers collected in this volume grew out of a workshop "Direct Com-positionality: A Workshop" sponsored by NSF Grant BCS-0236462 and held in June 2003 at Brown University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct compositionality, specificational subjects, specificational sentences, concealed question interpretation, computational side effects, linguistic side effects, binding connectivity, habitual reports, combinatory analyses, natural language compositionality, book whose length, late merger, specificational pseudocleft, degree quantifier, predicational sentences, degree clause, function from assignment functions, copular phrase, conservative quantifiers, student leavers, tight orange pants, syntactic economy, tectogrammatical structure, specificational reading, paycheck pronouns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Karenina, New York, Chris Barker, Linguistic Inquiry, Cornell University, Amsterdam Colloquium, Frege's Principle, University of Amsterdam, University of Massachusetts, Reconstruction Puzzles, Trace Conversion, Academic Press, David Dowty, Santa Cruz, University of California, Barbara Partee, Danny Fox, Donald Duck, Interpretation of Language, Oxford University Press, United States, Working Papers, Cambridge University Press, Chicago Linguistic Society, Determiner Replacement New!
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