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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017077.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262301404
A novel view of the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope that argues for a “combinatory” theory of natural language syntax. In Taking Scope , Mark Steedman considers the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope in interaction with negation, polarity, coordination, and pronominal binding, among other constructions. The semantics is “surface compositional,” in that there is a direct correspondence between syntactic types and operations of composition and types and compositions at the level of logical form. In that sense, the semantics is in the “natural logic” tradition of Aristotle, Leibniz, Frege, Russell, and others who sought to define a psychologically real logic directly reflecting natural language grammar. The book reunites the generative-transformational tradition initiated by Chomsky—which views the formal syntactic component as entirely autonomous—-with the older, strongly lexicalist, construction-based tradition, which has sought to define a more lingistically transparent theory of meaning representation. Steedman offers a logical formalism that relates directly to the surface form of language and to the process of inference and proof that it must support. Such a natural logic, although formal by definition, should be allowed to grow organically from attested language phenomena rather than be axiomatized a priori in terms of any standard logic. Steedman also considers the application of natural semantic interpretations to practical natural language processing tasks, emphasizing throughout the elimination of traditional quantifiers from semantic formalism in favor of devices such as Skolem terms and structure-sharing among representations in processing.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262301404
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 23 November 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8891.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262301404