Resource-Sensitivity, Binding and Anaphora /

The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources"--And relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity thus provides a perspective on lingui...

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Main Author: Kruijff, Geert-Jan M.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oehrle, Richard T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; 80.
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Summary:The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources"--And relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity thus provides a perspective on linguistic structure that is well-defined and universally-applicable. The papers in this collection - by J. van Benthem, P. Jacobson, G. Jäger, G-J. Kruijff, G. Morrill, R. Muskens, R. Oehrle, and A. Szabolcsi - examine linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives, including: - Modal aspects of categorial type inference; - Multi-dimensional type structures and grammatical architecture; - Resource-sensitive aspects of binding and anaphora; - Resource-sensitive inference and discourse context. In particular, the book contains a number of papers treating anaphorically-dependent expressions as functions, whose application to an appropriate argument yields a type and an interpretation directly integratable with the surrounding grammatical structure. To situate this work in a larger setting, the book contains two appendices: - an introductory guide to resource-sensivity; - notes on the historical background of resource-sensitive approaches to binding and anaphora.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 pages)
ISBN:9789401000376 (electronic bk.)
9401000379 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0924-4662 ;