Compositional Semantics
An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2014
- ISBN 9780199677153
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 246x175x23 mm
- Weight 756 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface, adopting a Direct Compositionality view while (where appropriate) also presenting a competing view based on Logical Form and comparing the two.
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This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English.
Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation. Alongside this approach, the author also presents a competing view that makes use of an intermediate level, Logical Form. She develops parallel treatments of a variety of phenomena from both points of view with detailed comparisons. The book begins with simple and fundamental concepts and gradually builds a more complex fragment, including analyses of more advanced topics such as focus, negative polarity, and a variety of topics centering on pronouns and binding more generally. Exercises are provided throughout, alongside open-ended questions for students to consider. The exercises are interspersed with the text to promote self-discovery of the fundamentals and their applications.
The book provides a rigorous foundation in formal analysis and model theoretic semantics and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields.
A simple and intuitive hypothesis about the relation between form and meaning is that every principle of grammar that says something about the syntactic composition of two expressions also says something about the meaning of the resulting complex expression. This hypothesis, known as direct compositionality, can sometimes appear difficult to maintain in the face of the complexity of human language, in which structure and meaning often seem to be related in fairly abstract ways. And yet Pauline Jacobson has shown conclusively in her work over the past thirty-five years how this approach can lead to insightful analyses and significant new discoveries about the nature of meaning.
Table of Contents:
Foreword: On using this book
PART I Foundational Concepts: Building a Fragment
Introduction
Semantic Foundations
Compositionality, Direct Compositionality, and the Syntax/Semantics Interface
Expanding the Fragment: Syntactic Categories and Semantic Types
Transitive Verbs: Resolving an Apparent Syntax/Semantics Mismatch
Categorial Grammar
The "Autonomy of Syntax"
Adjectives, Nouns, Determiners, and More
Interlude: The Semantics of Variables, and the Lambda Calculus
Part II: Enriching the Domain
Returning to English: Generalized Quantifiers
Ordinary NPs and Type Lifting
Generalized Conjunction
Part III: Relative Clauses, Scopes, and Binding: Some Theoretical Controversies
Relative Clauses: Sketching Two Accounts
Generalized Quantifiers in Object Position: Two Approaches
The Interpretation of Pronouns: Two Accounts
Appendices to Parts I - III: The Full Fragment
Part IV: Further Topics
Negative Polarity Items, Semantic Strength, and Scalar Implicature Revisited
More Binding Phenomena
Additional Semantic Dimensions: The Semantics of Focus
Intensionality and the Syntax/Semantics Interface
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