Type-Logical Syntax

• Main Author: Kubota, Yusuke (auth)
• Other Authors: Levine, Robert D. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Grammar, syntax & morphology; categorial grammar; generative grammar; linguistics; theoretical linguistics; Type-Logical Grammar; nontransformational syntax; coordination; nonconstituent coordination; ellipsis; syntactic constituency; semantics; Lambek calculus; hypothetical reasoning; scope; Gapping; Right-Node Raising; verb phrase ellipsis; pseudogapping; syntactic deletion; symmetrical predicate; island constraint; Type-Logical Categorial Grammar; split scope; parasitic scope
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A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax-semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena. In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax and seman...