Specifying Syntactic Structures

by Patrick Blackburn (Editor), Maarten de Rijke (Editor)

Overview

The papers in this book apply mathematical and logical methods to the description of linguistic structures. Such descriptions are useful for a variety of purposes. For example, they make it easier to design and debug software for dealing with human languages. The purpose of the volume is to introduce a number of new and better methods for describing linguistic structures. The volume contains contributions on the logical foundations of current syntactic theories, as well as on logical methods that lead to new ways of describing syntactic structures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684000029
Publisher:	CSLI
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	Studies in Logic, Language, and Information
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Patrick Blackburn is director of research at INRIA, France’s national organization for research in computer science. Johan Bos is senior researcher at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

1. A Grammar Formalism and Cross-Serial Dependencies 2. On Constraint-Based Lambek Calculi 3. On Reducing Principles to Rules 4. Structural control 5. Featureless HPSG 6. On Descriptive Complexity, Language Complexity, and GB 7. Feature trees over arbitrary structures 8. Dutch Verb Clustering without Verb Clusters 9. Approaches to Unification in Grammar: A Brief Survey.