25.4879, Books: Continuations and Natural Language: Barker, Shan

The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST linguist at listserv.linguistlist.org
Wed Dec 3 18:28:34 UTC 2014


LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4879. Wed Dec 03 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.4879, Books: Continuations and Natural Language: Barker, Shan

Moderators: Damir Cavar, Indiana U <damir at linguistlist.org>
            Malgorzata E. Cavar, Indiana U <gosia at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org
Anthony Aristar <aristar at linguistlist.org>
Helen Aristar-Dry <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Sara Couture, Indiana U <sara at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Do you want to donate to LINGUIST without spending an extra penny? Bookmark
the Amazon link for your country below; then use it whenever you buy from
Amazon!

USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-20
Britain: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-21
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistd-21
Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-22
Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistc-20
France: http://www.amazon.fr/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistf-21

For more information on the LINGUIST Amazon store please visit our
FAQ at http://linguistlist.org/amazon-faq.cfm.

Editor for this issue: Sara  Couture <sara at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/
					
					

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:28:18
From: Helena Palmer [helena.palmer at oup.com]
Subject: Continuations and Natural Language: Barker, Shan

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=25-4879.html&submissionid=35984477&topicid=2&msgnumber=1
 


Title: Continuations and Natural Language 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 53  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199575015.do 


Author: Chris Barker
Author: Chung-Chieh Shan

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199575015 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 65
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199575022 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 29.99


Abstract:

This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer
science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning.
Summarizing more than a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan
put forward the Continuation Hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural
language expression can depend on its own continuation. In Part I, the authors
develop a continuation-based theory of scope and quantificational binding and
provide an explanation for order sensitivity in scope-related phenomena such
as scope ambiguity, crossover, superiority, reconstruction, negative polarity
licensing, dynamic anaphora, and donkey anaphora. Part II outlines an
innovative substructural logic for reasoning about continuations and proposes
an analysis of the compositional semantics of adjectives such as 'same' in
terms of parasitic and recursive scope. It also shows that certain cases of
ellipsis should be treated as anaphora to a continuation, leading to a new
explanation for a subtype of sluicing known as sprouting.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=76453




PUBLISHING PARTNER

    Cambridge University Press
        http://us.cambridge.org

MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Akademie Verlag GmbH
        http://www.oldenbourg-verlag.de/akademie-verlag

    Bloomsbury Linguistics (formerly Continuum Linguistics)
        http://www.bloomsbury.com

    Brill
        http://www.brill.nl

    Cambridge Scholars Publishing
        http://www.c-s-p.org

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

    Classiques Garnier
        http://www.classiques-garnier.com/

    De Gruyter Mouton
        http://www.degruyter.com/

    Edinburgh University Press
        http://www.euppublishing.com

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

    Equinox Publishing Ltd
        http://www.equinoxpub.com/

    European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
        http://www.elra.info/

    Georgetown University Press
        http://www.press.georgetown.edu/

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

    Lincom GmbH
        http://www.lincom-shop.eu/

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

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

    Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
        http://www.narr.de/

    Oxford University Press
        oup.com/us

    Palgrave Macmillan
        http://www.palgrave.com/

    Peter Lang AG
        http://www.peterlang.com/

    Rodopi
        http://www.rodopi.nl/

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

    Springer
        http://www.springer.com/

    University of Toronto Press
        http://www.utpjournals.com/

    Wiley-Blackwell
        http://www.wiley.com/

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS

    Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
        http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm

    International Pragmatics Assoc.
        http://ipra.ua.ac.be/

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

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers
        http://www.morganclaypool.com/

    Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
        http://www.lotpublications.nl/

    Seoul National University
        http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

    SIL International Publications
        http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

    Universitat Jaume I
        http://www.uji.es/CA/publ/

    University of Nebraska Press
        http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/

    Utrecht institute of Linguistics
        http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/



----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4879	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/
					
					






More information about the LINGUIST mailing list