Continuations and Natural Language

Author:   Chris Barker (Professor and Chair in Linguistics, Professor and Chair in Linguistics, New York University) ,  Chung-chieh Shan (Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   53
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
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Author:   Chris Barker (Professor and Chair in Linguistics, Professor and Chair in Linguistics, New York University) ,  Chung-chieh Shan (Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   53
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.388kg
ISBN:  

9780199575022


ISBN 10:   0199575029
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PrefaceNotational conventionsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Towers: Scope and evaluation order1: Scope and towers2: Binding and crossover3: From generalized quantifiers to dynamic meaning4: Multi-level towers: Inverse scope5: Movement as delayed evaluation: Wh-fronting6: Reconstruction effects7: Generalized coordination, Flexible Montague Grammar8: Order effects in negative polarity licensing9: Donkey anaphora and donkey crossover10: Strategies for determiners11: Other combinatory categorial frameworks12: Computational connectionsPart II Logic, same, and sluicing13: NLλ14: Parasitic scope for same15: Scope versus discontinuity: Anaphora, VPE16: Sluicing as anaphora to a continuation17: Formal properties of NLλ18: Scope needs delimited continuationsAfterword: The logic of evaluation orderNotes on exercisesReferencesIndex

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Chris Barker is Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He has held positions at a number of universities, including 10 years at University of California, San Diego. His 1991 PhD thesis, 'Possessive Descriptions', was published in 1995 by CSLI, Stanford. He is the co-editor with Pauline Jacobson of Direct Compositionality (OUP 2007), the co-founder of semanticsarchive.net, and co-editor with Chris Kennedy of the series 'Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics' and 'Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics'. Chung-chieh Shan is Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, and was previously Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. He received his PhD in computer science in 2005 from Harvard University and has published articles in Linguistics and Philosophy, Journal of Logic, Language and Information, and Science of Computer Programming.

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