Interpreted Languages and Compositionality
(Sprache: Englisch)
Since the rise of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of 'compositionality' has gained traction in linguistics. This book argues that there exist non-compositional languages. Moreover, syntactic structure can be motivated from the requirement of providing a compositional grammar.
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Since the rise of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of 'compositionality' has gained traction in linguistics. This book argues that there exist non-compositional languages. Moreover, syntactic structure can be motivated from the requirement of providing a compositional grammar.
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This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'. This notion, first posited by de Saussure in the early 20th century, has for decades been neglected by linguists, particularly following Chomsky's heavy critiques of the 1950s. Yet since the emergence of formal semantics in the 1970s, the issue of compositionality has gained traction in the theoretical debate, becoming a selling point for linguistic theories.
Yet the concept of 'compositionality' itself remains ill-defined, an issue this book addresses. Positioning compositionality as a cornerstone in linguistic theory, it argues that, contrary to widely held beliefs, there exist non-compositional languages, which shows that the concept of compositionality has empirical content. The author asserts that the existence of syntactic structure can flow from the fact that a compositional grammar cannot be delivered without prior agreement on the syntactic structure of the constituents.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Interpreted Languages and Compositionality “
1. Synopsis .- 2. String Languages . 2.1 Languages and Grammars . 2.2 Parts and Substitution . 2.3 Grammars and String Categories . 2.4 Indeterminacy and Adjunction . 2.5. Syntactic Structure . 2.6 The Principle of Preservation .- 3. Compositionality . 3.1 Compositionality . 3.2 Interpreted Languages and Grammars . 3.3 Compositionality and Independence . 3.4 Categories . 3.5 Weak and Strong Generative Capacity . 3.6 Indeterminacy in Interpreted Grammars . 3.7 Abstraction .- 4. Meanings . 4.1 'Desyntactified' Meanings . 4.2 Predicate Logic . 4.3 Concepts . 4.4 Linking Aspects and Constructional Meanings . 4.5 Concepts and Pictures . 4.6 Ambiguity and Identity . 4.7 Profiling .- 5. Examples . 5.1 Predicate . 5.2 Concept Based Predicate Logic . 5.3 A Fragment of English . 5.4 Concepts and LF 5.5 The Structure of Dutch . 5.6 Arguing for Syntactic Structure .- 6. Conclusion .- A. Useful Mathematical Concepts and Notation .- B. Symbols .- C. Index .- Bibliography
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marcus Kracht
- 2013, 2011., 214 Seiten, Maße: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9400737564
- ISBN-13: 9789400737563
Sprache:
Englisch
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