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- Title
The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts.
- Authors
Brasoveanu, Adrian
- Abstract
Providing a compositional interpretation procedure for discourses in which descriptions of complex dependencies between interrelated objects are incrementally built is a key challenge for formal theories of natural language interpretation. This paper examines several quantificational phenomena and argues that to account for these phenomena, we need richly structured contexts of interpretation that are passed on between different parts of the same sentence and also across sentential boundaries. The main contribution of the paper is showing how we can add structure to contexts in an incremental way, starting with the basic notion of context in classical first-order logic, i.e., interpretation contexts formalized as single total variable assignments.
- Subjects
GRAMMAR; PREDICATE calculus; ANAPHORA (Linguistics); HERMENEUTICS; SENTENCES (Grammar); FIRST-order logic
- Publication
Synthese, 2013, Vol 190, Issue 15, p3001
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-012-0118-7