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The syntactic process / Mark Steedman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language, speech, and communicationCopyright date: �2000Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585227551
  • 9780585227559
  • 9780262284219
  • 0262284219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Syntactic process.DDC classification:
  • 415 21
LOC classification:
  • P291 .S67 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Grammar and Information Structure -- Rules, Constituents, and Fragments -- Issues of Power and Explanation -- Grammar as an Applicative System -- Intuitive Basis of Combinatory Categorial Grammars -- Pure Categorial Grammar -- Interpretation and Predicate-Argument Structure -- Coordination -- The Bluebird -- The Thrush -- The Starling -- Explaining Constraints on Natural Grammar -- Intrinsic Constraints Limiting the Set of Possible Rules -- Linguistic Constraints on Unbounded Dependencies -- Linguistic Constraints on Bounded Dependencies -- Quantification in CCG -- Summary: Surface Structure and Interpretation -- Structure and Intonation -- Surface Structure and Intonation Structure -- Two Intonation Contours and Their Functions -- Theme and Rheme -- Grammar and Information Structure -- Intonation and the Simplex Clause -- Intonation in Complex Constructions -- Coordination and Word Order -- Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch -- Word Order in Dutch -- Verb Raising as Composition -- Equi Verbs -- Argument Cluster Composition -- Relative Clauses -- Subject and Object Extraction from Embedded Clauses -- Dutch Main-clause Order -- Interaction of Word order and Quantifier Scope -- On the Rarity of Crossing Dependencies -- Summary of the Dutch Fragment -- Gapping and the Order of Constituents -- Gapping and SOV Word Order -- Gapping and VSO Word Order -- Gapping and SVO Word Order -- Other Elliptical Phenomena -- A Cautious Conclusion -- Computation and Performance -- Combinators and Grammars -- Why Categories and Combinators?
Review: "In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without forming any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to develop a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning." "The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields."--Jacket.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-319) and index.

Grammar and Information Structure -- Rules, Constituents, and Fragments -- Issues of Power and Explanation -- Grammar as an Applicative System -- Intuitive Basis of Combinatory Categorial Grammars -- Pure Categorial Grammar -- Interpretation and Predicate-Argument Structure -- Coordination -- The Bluebird -- The Thrush -- The Starling -- Explaining Constraints on Natural Grammar -- Intrinsic Constraints Limiting the Set of Possible Rules -- Linguistic Constraints on Unbounded Dependencies -- Linguistic Constraints on Bounded Dependencies -- Quantification in CCG -- Summary: Surface Structure and Interpretation -- Structure and Intonation -- Surface Structure and Intonation Structure -- Two Intonation Contours and Their Functions -- Theme and Rheme -- Grammar and Information Structure -- Intonation and the Simplex Clause -- Intonation in Complex Constructions -- Coordination and Word Order -- Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch -- Word Order in Dutch -- Verb Raising as Composition -- Equi Verbs -- Argument Cluster Composition -- Relative Clauses -- Subject and Object Extraction from Embedded Clauses -- Dutch Main-clause Order -- Interaction of Word order and Quantifier Scope -- On the Rarity of Crossing Dependencies -- Summary of the Dutch Fragment -- Gapping and the Order of Constituents -- Gapping and SOV Word Order -- Gapping and VSO Word Order -- Gapping and SVO Word Order -- Other Elliptical Phenomena -- A Cautious Conclusion -- Computation and Performance -- Combinators and Grammars -- Why Categories and Combinators?

Print version record.

"In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without forming any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to develop a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning." "The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields."--Jacket.

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