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Direct Compositionality
Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson
448 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920437-3
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Hardback
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01 March 2007
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- Contributions of the highest calibre
- Analyses a central topic in syntax and semantics
- Written by some of the best new and established scholars in the field
- Contributions from both sides of the debate
- Unusually wide range of frameworks and empirical problems discussed
- Discusses this in the context of a number of different formalisms, and pushes the debate into domains not usually approached from this angle
This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to whether or not this view can be maintained has receded. The syntax-semantics interaction is now often seen as a process in which the syntax builds representations which, at the abstract level of logical form, are sent for interpretation to
the semantics component of the language faculty. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis of direct compositionality for twenty years, this book considers whether its abandonment might have been premature and whether in fact direct compositionality is not after all a simpler and more effective conception of the grammar than the conventional account of the syntax-semantics interface in generative grammar. It contains contributions from both sides of the debate, locates the debate in the setting of a variety of formal theories, and draws on examples from a range of languages and a range of empirical phenomena.Readership: This book will appeal to students of formal semantics and the syntax-semantics
interface at gradauate level and above in departments of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
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Chris Barker, Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University,, and Pauline Jacobson, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University Contributors:
Rajesh Bhatt, The University of Massachusetts
Maria Bittner, Rutgers University
Ivano Caponigro, University of California at San Diego
David Dowty, Ohio State University
Daphna Heller, University of Rochester
Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts
Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania
Chung-chieh Shan, Rutgers University
Yael Sharvit, University of Connecticut
Yoad Winter, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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"an impressive lineup of papers in formal semantics that are concerned with direct compositionality ... I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the specifics of how, for instance, binding and quantification can be accounted for within syntactically sparse frameworks. Direct Compositionality is rich with innovative, well-argued proposals, and anyone who is concerned with the kinds of constructions that are taken up in this volume will certainly benefit from reading it." - Martin L. Jönsson, Language
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1: Chris Barker and Pauline Jacobson: Introduction: Direct Compositionality
Part I Some Programmatic Issues
2: David Dowty: Compositionality as an Empirical Problem
3: Chris Barker: Direct Compositionality on Demand
4: Chung-chieh Shan: Linguistic Side Effects
5: Yoad Winter: Type Shifting with Semantic Features: a Unified Perspective
Part II Case Studies
6: Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: the Case of "Principle B" Effects
7: Ivano Caponigro and Daphna Heller: The Non Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences
8: Maribel Romero: Connectivity in a Unified Analysis of Specificational Subjects and Concealed Questions
9: Rajesh Bhatt and Roumyana Pancheva: Degree Quantifiers, Position of Merger Effects with their Restrictors, and Conservativity
10: Yael Sharvit: Two Reconstruction Puzzles
Part III New Horizons
11: Maria Bittner: Online Update: Temporal, Modal, and de sa Anaphora in Polysynthetic Discourse
12: Christopher Potts: The Dimensions of Quotation
Index
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