Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together.

The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

Contributors
Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

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Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together.

The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

Contributors
Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

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Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach

Overview

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together.

The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field.

Contributors
Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780262041713
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 03/17/1999
Series: Language, Speech, and Communication
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 409
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.35(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author


Mary Dalrymple is University Lecturer in General Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
1 Overview and Introduction
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat
2 Quantification, Anaphora, and Intensionality
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira, and Vijay Saraswat
3 Proof Nets and Negative Polarity Licensing
John Fry
4 ConteXt Change, Underspecification, and the Structure
of Glue Language Derivations
Richard Crouch and Josef van Genabith
5 Resource Sharing in Glue Language Semantics
Andrew Kehler, Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat
6 Dynamic and Underspecified Semantics for LFG
Josef van Genabith and Richard Crouch
7 Relating Resourcebased Semantics to Categorical
Semantics
Mary Dalrymple, Vineet Gupta, John Lamping, and Vijay Saraswat
8 LFG as Concurrent Constraint Programming
Vijay Saraswat
9 LFG as Labeled Deduction
Dick Oehrle
10 Typedriven Semantic Interpretation and Feature
Dependencies in RLFG
Mark Johnson
Author IndeX
Subject IndeX

What People are Saying About This

Josef van Genabith

A valuable resrouce and reference book for both teaching and research in this comparatively new area.

Anette Frank

This volume comprises a representative collection of introductory and advanced papers documenting research in linguistic and formal aspects of linear logic based semantics and syntax in LFG. The resource logical approach is attractive in that it gives a clear deductive account of the syntax/semantics interface including quantifier and operator scope. It allows a tighter or looser coupling between syntax and semantics, while maintaining compositionality.

Endorsement

A valuable resrouce and reference book for both teaching and research in this comparatively new area.

—Josef van Genabith, Department of Computer Applications, Dublin City University

From the Publisher

This volume comprises a representative collection of introductory and advanced papers documenting research in linguistic and formal aspects of linear logic based semantics and syntax in LFG. The resource logical approach is attractive in that it gives a clear deductive account of the syntax/semantics interface including quantifier and operator scope. It allows a tighter or looser coupling between syntax and semantics, while maintaining compositionality.

—Anette Frank, Xerox Research Centre Europe

A valuable resrouce and reference book for both teaching and research in this comparatively new area.

—Josef van Genabith, Department of Computer Applications, Dublin City University

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