Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics : underspecified Semantics with LTAG
- In this paper we propose a compositional semantics for lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG). Tree-local multicomponent derivations allow separation of the semantic contribution of a lexical item into one component contributing to the predicate argument structure and a second component contributing to scope semantics. Based on this idea a syntax-semantics interface is presented where the compositional semantics depends only on the derivation structure. It is shown that the derivation structure (and indirectly the locality of derivations) allows an appropriate amount of underspecification. This is illustrated by investigating underspecified representations for quantifier scope ambiguities and related phenomena such as adjunct scope and island constraints.
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| Author: | Laura KallmeyerORCiDGND, Aravind K. Joshi |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1110274 |
| URL: | http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~lk/papers/KalJoshLC03.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024564228892 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8706 |
| ISSN: | 1570-7075 |
| Parent Title (English): | Research on language and computation |
| Publisher: | Kluwer Acad. Publ. |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2003 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2008/10/20 |
| Tag: | LTAG; computational semantics; lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar; quantifier scope; underspecification |
| GND Keyword: | Semantik |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Page Number: | 56 |
| First Page: | 3 |
| Last Page: | 58 |
| Note: | © Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003 |
| Source: | http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~lk/papers/KalJoshLC03.pdf ; Research on Language and Computation (2003), 1, S. 1-58 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 206693141 |
| Institutes: | keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Computerlinguistik / Computational linguistics |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
