Information-Based Syntax and Semantics - VOLUME 1: Fundamentals.

Pollard, Carl Jesse and Ivan A. Sag:

ISBN 10: 0937073245 / ISBN 13: 9780937073247

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion, 1987

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233 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 570.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information-Based Syntax and Semantics - VOLUME 1: Fundamentals.
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937073245
• ISBN 13: 9780937073247
• Binding: gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • 90 Varia

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Synopsis

A long-standing, near-universal, and erroneous practice of teaching syntax in a void exists, as if the communicative function of language had nothing to do with syntax. And semantics has customarily been taught in sequence after syntax, or else not at all. Based upon graduate courses taught at Stanford University, this work seeks to redress this situation by building up syntactic and semantic aspects of grammatical theory in an integrated way from the start, under the assumption that neither is of linguistic interest divorced from the other. The particular theory presented, head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) - so-called because of its central notion of the grammatical head - is an information-based (or 'unification-based' theory that has its roots in a number of different research programs within linguistics and neighboring disciplines such as philosophy and computer science. Thus HPSG draws upon and attempts to synthesize insights and perspectives from several families of contemporary syntactic theories, such as categorial grammar, lexical-functional grammar, generalized phrase structure grammar, and government-binding theory; but many of its key ideas arise from semantic theories like situation semantics and discourse representation theory, and from computational work in such areas as knowledge representation, data type theory, and formalisms based upon the unification of partial information.