book announcement--Dalrymple

[Mary Dalrymple]

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The following is a book which readers of this list might find of
interest.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DALSHS99

Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar

The Resource Logic Approach

edited by Mary Dalrymple

A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates
two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for
semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach
to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the
"glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings
together.

	

The glue approach has attracted significant attention from, among
others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of
linear logic; linguists interested in a deductive approach to the
interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational,
constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and
computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition
that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational
framework.

	

Mary Dalrymple is a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center, Consulting Associate Professor of Linguistics at
Stanford University, and a Researcher at the Center for the Study of
Language and Information, Stanford University.

Contributors

Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson,
Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay
Saraswat, Josef van Genabith.

6 x 9, 409 pp., cloth ISBN 0-262-04171-5

A Bradford Book

Language, Speech, and Communication series

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