Chris Barker & Chung-chieh Shan 
Continuations and Natural Language [PDF ebook] 

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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 anexplanation 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 analysisof 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. The book makes a significant contribution to work on scope, reference, quantification, and other central aspects of semantics and will appeal to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 320 ● ISBN 9780191664922 ● Casa editrice OUP Oxford ● Pubblicato 2014 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 4027248 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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