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.
The book makes a significant contribution to work on scope, reference, quantification, and other central aspects of semantics and will appeal to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.
                                
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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 over 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
                                
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                                                          PART I TOWERS: SCOPE AND EVALUATION ORDER; PART II LOGIC, SAME, AND SLUICING
                                                      
 
                                              Produktdetaljer
ISBN
                    
            9780199575022
      
                  Publisert
                     2014 
                  Utgiver
                    Oxford University Press
                  Vekt
                     388 gr
                  Høyde
                     240 mm
                  Bredde
                     170 mm
                  Dybde
                     13 mm
                  Aldersnivå
                     UP, 05
                  Språk
                    
  Product language
              Engelsk
          Format
                    
  Product format
              Heftet
          Antall sider
                     256
                  