Theory and Evidence in Semantics
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Theory and Evidence in Semantics
In Theory and Evidence in Semantics, editors Erhard W. Hinrichs and John Nerbonne present a series of state-of-the-art papers that investigate the interface of natural language semantics with other modules of grammar—such as morphology, syntax, and pragmatics—and pursue applications of semantic theory in computational linguistics. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, and strongly influenced by the seminal work of David R. Dowty in model-theoretical semantics, the papers provide novel accounts of highly complex sets of semantic phenomena, including anaphora, coordination, ellipsis, interrogatives, and negative and collective predicates, as well as tense and aspect.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction Theory and Evidence in Semantics
Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne
Acknowledgements
1. Reconsturction as delayed evaluation
Chris Barker
2. Selectional Preferences for Anaphora Resolution
Erhard Hinrichs and Holger Wunsch
3. The swarm alternation revisited
Jack Hoeksema
4. Representations or Meanings?
Pauline Jacobson
5. Approximate Interpretations of Number Words
Manfred Krifka
6. Compositional Interpretation
Peter N. Lasersohn
7. Quantitatively Detecting Semantic Relations
John Nerbonne and Tim Van de Cruys
8. know-how: A compositional approach
Craige Roberts
9. Cells and paradigms in inflectional semantics
Gregory Stump
10. Right-Node Wrapping
Neal Whitman
Index
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