31.3729, Books: Type-Logical Syntax: Kubota, Levine

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:15:14
From: Amy Harris [aeharris at mit.edu]
Subject: Type-Logical Syntax: Kubota, Levine

 


Title: Type-Logical Syntax 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/type-logical-syntax 


Author: Yusuke Kubota
Author: Robert D. Levine

Paperback: ISBN:  9780262539746 Pages: 420 Price: U.S. $ 60.00


Abstract:

In this book, Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine propose a type-logical version
of categorial grammar as a viable alternative model of natural language syntax
and semantics. They show that this novel logic-based framework is applicable
to a range of phenomena—especially in the domains of coordination and
ellipsis—that have proven problematic for traditional approaches.

The type-logical syntax the authors propose takes derivations of natural
language sentences to be proofs in a particular kind of logic governing the
way words and phrases are combined. This logic builds on and unifies two
deductive systems from the tradition of categorial grammar; the resulting
system, Hybrid Type-Logical Categorial Grammar (Hybrid TLCG) enables
comprehensive approaches to coordination (gapping, dependent cluster
coordination, and right-node raising) and ellipsis (VP ellipsis,
pseudogapping, and extraction/ellipsis interaction). It captures a number of
intricate patterns of interaction between scopal operators and seemingly
incomplete constituents that are frequently found in these two empirical
domains. Kubota and Levine show that the hybrid calculus underlying their
framework incorporates key analytic ideas from competing approaches in the
generative syntax literature to offer a unified and systematic treatment of
data that have posed considerable difficulties for previous accounts. Their
account demonstrates that logic is a powerful tool for analyzing the deeper
principles underlying the syntax and semantics of natural language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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