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Author(s): Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
ISBN(s): 9780199575022, 0199575029
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.11 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199575029

ISBN 13: 9780199575022 

Author: Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan 

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.

Table of contents:

Preface
Notational conventions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Towers: Scope and evaluation order
1:Scope and towers
2:Binding and crossover
3:From generalized quantifiers to dynamic meaning
4:Multi-level towers: Inverse scope
5:Movement as delayed evaluation: Wh-fronting
6:Reconstruction effects
7:Generalized coordination, Flexible Montague Grammar
8:Order effects in negative polarity licensing
9:Donkey anaphora and donkey crossover
10:Strategies for determiners
11:Other combinatory categorial frameworks
12:Computational connections
Part II Logic, same, and sluicing
13:NLλ
14:Parasitic scope for same
15:Scope versus discontinuity: Anaphora, VPE
16:Sluicing as anaphora to a continuation
17:Formal properties of NLλ
18:Scope needs delimited continuations
Afterword: The logic of evaluation order
Notes on exercises
References
Index

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