Issues in Mathematical Linguistics
Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 1999
XII, 214 pages
978-90-272-8472-3 (ISBN)
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This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is narrowly related to current developments in other disciplines, namely theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. The volume offers a coherent picture of recent research on the mathematics of language, and may be of interest to a wide audience, from linguists to mathematicians. Detailed indexes of authors and topics provide an easy access to the contents.
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Content
- ISSUES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Table of contents
- List of Contributors
- Commands as Binary Relations
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Preliminaries
- WR-commands for precedence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Generalized Minimalist Grammars
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Keenan and Stabler's generalized/bare grammars
- Generalizing minimalist grammars
- Deriving X-bar theoretic notions
- Movement and feature sorts
- Movement as a variety of merger
- Sample derivations
- Semantic interpretation GMGs
- References
- An Infinite Hierarchy of Mildly Context-Sensitive Families of Languages
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Marcus many-dimensional simple contextual grammars
- The main result
- Conclusion
- References
- Some Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Linguistics
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The mathematics of possible languages
- The mathematics of acquirable languages
- The mathematics of related languages
- Conclusion
- References
- Logical Splicing in Natural Languages
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Monoidal representability
- Logical syntax
- Universal syntax
- References
- X-Families: An Approach to the Study of Families of Syntactically Similar Languages
- Abstract
- Introduction: X-families
- Basic problems
- Contextual grammars
- M-families of languages
- Closure properties
- Undecidability of axioms matching
- Non-M-families
- Decidability results
- Further problems
- Conclusions
- References
- Overparsing
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Overparsing
- SCP: syntactic constraint propagation, partial derivability and adjacency
- Complexity
- Linguistic coverage
- Notes
- References
- Computational Complexity in Language Models
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Two views of complexity models
- The Chomsky hierarchy
- Beyond the Chomsky hierarchy
- Is language infinite?
- References
- Grammar Efficiency and the Historical Development of Word Order in French
- Abstract
- Grammar efficiency revisited
- Grammar efficiency of simple transitive sentences
- French word order
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
