14.2599, Books: Generative Grammar: Morawietz

Mon Sep 29 15:42:37 UTC 2003

LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-2599. Mon Sep 29 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.2599, Books: Generative Grammar: Morawietz

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org):
	Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona
	Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisa at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================
Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are
available at the end of this issue.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:41:07 +0000
From:  julia.ulrich at degruyter.com
Subject:  Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalisms: Morawietz

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:41:07 +0000
From:  julia.ulrich at degruyter.com
Subject:  Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalisms: Morawietz

Title: Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalisms
Series Title: Studies in Generative Grammar 64

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
           http://www.mouton-publishers.com		

Author: Frank  Morawietz, University of Tübingen, Germany

Hardback: ISBN: 3110178214, Pages: xv, 246 pages, Price: EURO 78.00 /
	  approx. US$ 86.00

Abstract:

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary
linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree
Adjoining Grammar. Through a careful introduction of mathematical
techniques from logic, automata theory and universal algebra, the book
aims at graduate students and researchers who want to learn more about
tightly constrained logical approaches to natural language
syntax. Therefore it features a complete and well illustrated
introduction to the connection between declarative approaches
formalized in monadic second-order logic (MSO) and generative ones
formalized in various forms of automata as well as of tree grammars.

Since MSO logic (on trees) yields only context-free languages, and at
least the last two of the formalisms mentioned above clearly belong to
the class of mildly context-sensitive formalisms, it becomes necessary
to deal with the problem of the descriptive complexity of the
formalisms involved in another way. The proposed genuinely new
two-step approach overcomes this limitation of MSO logic while still
retaining the desired tightly controlled formal properties.

>>From the Contents

I	Introduction
	1	Overview
	2	Technical preliminaries

II	The Classical Approach - Using MSO Logic as a Description
	Language for Natural Language Syntax
	3	Model-theoretic syntax and monadic second-order logic
	4	Finite-state devices
	5	Decidability and definability
	6	Applications
	7	Intermediate conclusion

III	Two Steps Are Better Than One - Extending the Use of MSO Logic
	to Non-Context-Free Linguistic Formalisms
	8	Overview of the two-step approach
	9	Non-context-freeness of natural language
	10	The first step: Lifting
	11	The second step: Reconstruction

IV	Conclusion and Outlook

V	Appendix

Sign up for our free electronic newsletter at
www.degruyter.de/newsletter

To order, please contact
SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbH
Postfach 4343
72774 Reutlingen, Germany
Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33
E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com

For USA, Canada and Mexico:
Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
200 Saw Mill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326
E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com

Lingfield(s):   General Linguistics
		Generative Grammar (General Linguistics)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

     See this book announcement on our website:
     http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7349.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press
		http://www.cup.org	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Elsevier Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Kluwer Academic Publishers
		http://www.wkap.nl/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom Europa
		www.lincom-europa.com	

	MIT Press
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup-usa.org/	

	Pacini Editore Spa
		http://www.pacinieditore.it/index_dinamico.htm	

	Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
		http://www.routledge.com/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	CSLI Publications
		http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/

	Canadian Journal of Linguistics

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/

	Evolution Publishing
		http://www.evolpub.com

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://server102.hypermart.net/glsa/index.htm

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

	Linguistic Assoc. of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com

	Pearson Longman
		http://www.pearsoneduc.com/discipline.asp?d=LG

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-14-2599