Ebook: Resource-Sensitivity, Binding and Anaphora

Geert-Jan Kruijff & Richard T. Oehrle A categorial grammar is both a grammar and a type inference system. As a result of this duality, the categorial framework offers a natural setting in which to study questions of grammatical composition, both empirically and abstractly. There are affinities in this perspective, of course, to basic questions in formal language theory. But the fact that categorial grammars are type in­ ference systems makes possible intrinsic connections among syntactic types, syntactic type inference, semantic types, and semantic type inference, a con­ nection less apparent in the standard constructions of formal language theory. Fixing a system of grammatical type inference T, we may explore what gram­ matical phenomena are compatible with T-and equally, what grammatical phenomena are not. Equally, fixing a class of grammatical phenomena g, we may seek to ascertain what systems of type inference characterize g. This dual perspective is a strong current in the categorial literature, going back to the classical papers of Ajdukiewicz, Bar-Hillel, Curry, and Lambek.

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The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources" - and relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity thus provides a perspective on linguistic structure that is well-defined and universally-applicable. The papers in this collection - by J. van Benthem, P. Jacobson, G. J?ger, G-J. Kruijff, G. Morrill, R. Muskens, R. Oehrle, and A. Szabolcsi - examine linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives, including:

- Modal aspects of categorial type inference;
- Multi-dimensional type structures and grammatical architecture;
- Resource-sensitive aspects of binding and anaphora;
- Resource-sensitive inference and discourse context.

In particular, the book contains a number of papers treating anaphorically-dependent expressions as functions, whose application to an appropriate argument yields a type and an interpretation directly integratable with the surrounding grammatical structure. To situate this work in a larger setting, the book contains two appendices:

- an introductory guide to resource-sensivity;
- notes on the historical background of resource-sensitive approaches to binding and anaphora.

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The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources" - and relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity thus provides a perspective on linguistic structure that is well-defined and universally-applicable. The papers in this collection - by J. van Benthem, P. Jacobson, G. J?ger, G-J. Kruijff, G. Morrill, R. Muskens, R. Oehrle, and A. Szabolcsi - examine linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives, including:

- Modal aspects of categorial type inference;
- Multi-dimensional type structures and grammatical architecture;
- Resource-sensitive aspects of binding and anaphora;
- Resource-sensitive inference and discourse context.

In particular, the book contains a number of papers treating anaphorically-dependent expressions as functions, whose application to an appropriate argument yields a type and an interpretation directly integratable with the surrounding grammatical structure. To situate this work in a larger setting, the book contains two appendices:

- an introductory guide to resource-sensivity;
- notes on the historical background of resource-sensitive approaches to binding and anaphora.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Categorial Grammar at a Cross-Roads....Pages 3-21
Language, Lambdas, and Logic....Pages 23-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Binding without Pronouns (and Pronouns without Binding)....Pages 57-96
Resource Sharing in Type Logical Grammar....Pages 97-121
Binding across Boundaries....Pages 123-157
On Bound Anaphora in Type Logical Grammar....Pages 159-177
Structural Communication in Binding....Pages 179-214
Binding on the Fly: Cross-Sentential Anaphora in Variable-Free Semantics....Pages 215-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Resource-Sensitivity—A Brief Guide....Pages 231-255
Some Precursors....Pages 257-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-297

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The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources" - and relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity thus provides a perspective on linguistic structure that is well-defined and universally-applicable. The papers in this collection - by J. van Benthem, P. Jacobson, G. J?ger, G-J. Kruijff, G. Morrill, R. Muskens, R. Oehrle, and A. Szabolcsi - examine linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives, including:

- Modal aspects of categorial type inference;
- Multi-dimensional type structures and grammatical architecture;
- Resource-sensitive aspects of binding and anaphora;
- Resource-sensitive inference and discourse context.

In particular, the book contains a number of papers treating anaphorically-dependent expressions as functions, whose application to an appropriate argument yields a type and an interpretation directly integratable with the surrounding grammatical structure. To situate this work in a larger setting, the book contains two appendices:

- an introductory guide to resource-sensivity;
- notes on the historical background of resource-sensitive approaches to binding and anaphora.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Categorial Grammar at a Cross-Roads....Pages 3-21
Language, Lambdas, and Logic....Pages 23-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Binding without Pronouns (and Pronouns without Binding)....Pages 57-96
Resource Sharing in Type Logical Grammar....Pages 97-121
Binding across Boundaries....Pages 123-157
On Bound Anaphora in Type Logical Grammar....Pages 159-177
Structural Communication in Binding....Pages 179-214
Binding on the Fly: Cross-Sentential Anaphora in Variable-Free Semantics....Pages 215-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Resource-Sensitivity—A Brief Guide....Pages 231-255
Some Precursors....Pages 257-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-297
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