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Author:
Mark Steedman
PublishedOn:
2001-09-03
ISBN:
9780262692687
EAN:
9780262692687
Publication Name:
Syntactic Process
Item Length:
9.1in.
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Series:
Language, Speech, and Communication Ser.
Publication Year:
2001
Type:
Textbook
Format:
Trade Paperback
Language:
English
Item Height:
0.7in.
Features:
Reprint
Item Width:
6.3in.
Item Weight:
20.5 Oz
Number of Pages:
348 Pages
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This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty. In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without constructing any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to construct a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning. The radical nature of Steedman's proposal stems from his claim that much of the apparent complexity of syntax, prosody, and processing follows from the lexical specification of the grammar and from the involvement of a small number of universal rule-types for combining predicates and arguments. These syntactic operations are related to the combinators of Combinatory Logic, engendering a much freer definition of derivational constituency than is traditionally assumed. This property allows Combinatory Categorial Grammar to capture elegantly the structure and interpretation of coordination and intonation contour in English as well as some well-known interactions between word order, coordination, and relativization across a number of other languages. It also allows more direct compatibility with incremental semantic interpretation during parsing. The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields.
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Publisher
The MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262692686
ISBN-13
9780262692687
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1942377
Product Key Features
Author
Mark Steedman
Publication Name
Syntactic Process
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Series
Language, Speech, and Communication Ser.
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
348 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in.
Item Height
0.7in.
Item Width
6.3in.
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
P291.S67 2000
Grade from
College Graduate Beginner
Edition Description
Reprint
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"This is the book about Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) that the community has been waiting for!" -Mark Johnson, Brown University
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