Direct Compositionality

Barker, Chris; Jacobson, Pauline (Eds)

ISBN 10: 0199204381 / ISBN 13: 9780199204380

Edité par Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001

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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Paperback with minor shelf and edgewear to covers only. Pages are clean, and the text is clear. TH.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Direct Compositionality
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0199204381
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780199204380
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Language & Communication

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Synopsis

This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to whether or not this view can be maintained has receded. The syntax-semantics interaction is now often seen as a process in which the syntax builds representations which, at the abstract level of logical form, are sent for interpretation to the semantics component of the language faculty. In the first extended discussion of the hypothesis of direct compositionality for twenty years, this book considers whether its abandonment might have been premature and whether in fact direct compositionality is not after all a simpler and more effective conception of the grammar than the conventional account of the syntax-semantics interface in generative grammar. It contains contributions from both sides of the debate, locates the debate in the setting of a variety of formal theories, and draws on examples from a range of languages and a range of empirical phenomena.

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. He has held positions at a number of universities, including 10 years at UCSD. His 1991 UCSC PhD thesis, Possessive Descriptions, was published in 1995 by CSLI, Stanford. He is the co-founder of semanticsarchive.net, and is co-editor of Oxford Surveys in Semantics and Pragmatics.



Pauline Jacobson is Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. She has also held visiting appointments at Ohio State University and Harvard University. Her books include The Nature of Syntactic Representation, co-edited with G. K. Pullum (Reidel,1982) and The Syntax of Crossing Conference Sentences (Garland, 1980); the latter is the publicaton of her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley). She is editor in chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy.