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Record Nr.

UNISA996248221103316

Autore

Steedman Mark

Titolo

The syntactic process / / Mark Steedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2000

©2000

ISBN

0-585-22755-1

0-262-28421-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 330 p. )

Collana

Language, speech, and communication

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-319) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book Mark Steedman argues that the surface syntax of natural languages maps spoken and written forms directly to a compositional semantic representation that includes predicate-argument structure, quantification, and information structure without forming any intervening structural representation. His purpose is to develop a principled theory of natural grammar that is directly compatible with both explanatory linguistic accounts of a number of problematic syntactic phenomena and a straightforward computational account of the way sentences are mapped onto representations of meaning." "The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields."--Jacket.