Combinatory linguistics
Item
Title
Combinatory linguistics
Creator
Bozsahin, Cem
Date
2012
pages
1-298
Publisher
De Gruyter
Description
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to promote a Humean question in linguistics and cognitive science: Why do we see limited constituency and dependency in natural languages, despite their diversity and potential infinity? A potential answer is that constituents and dependencies might have arisen from a single resource: adjacency. The combinatory formulation of adjacency constrains possible grammars.
Subject
Linguistics
Semantics & pragmatics
Grammar, syntax & morphology
Computational linguistics
Language
English
isbn
9783110251708, 9783110296877
doi
10.1515/9783110296877
Rights
All rights reserved
