Making Logical Form type-logical: Glue semantics for Minimalist syntax

Gotham, Matthew

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“…We provide corpus data which show that weak and strong readings are available both inside and outside coordination, and we provide a unified analysis of both phenomena based in event semantics which allows modal adverbs to have sub-sentential scope and still target expressions of propositional type. Our analysis relies on the flexible approach to semantic composition afforded by glue semantics (Dalrymple 1999;Gotham 2018), where a functor can 'ignore' unsaturated positions in its arguments.…”

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Modification of DPs by epistemic adverbs

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Dalrymple

Haug

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We examine two phenomena which, with the exception of Bogal-Allbritten & Weir (2017), have not been systematically studied together but are clearly related: (a) epistemic adverbs in ad-nominal positions modifying a DP outside of coordination and (b) epistemic adverbs modifying a DP within a coordination of DPs (Collins conjunction). Ad-nominal adverbs outside of coordinate structures have been claimed to have a strong reading giving rise to an existential entailment (John visited maybe England entails that John visited some place, and that place might have been England) while in Collins conjunctions, a weak reading with no existential implication has been claimed to be available (John and perhaps Mary went to the store means that either John went to the store, or John and Mary went to the store). We provide corpus data which show that weak and strong readings are available both inside and outside coordination, and we provide a unified analysis of both phenomena based in event semantics which allows modal adverbs to have sub-sentential scope and still target expressions of propositional type. Our analysis relies on the flexible approach to semantic composition afforded by glue semantics (Dalrymple 1999;Gotham 2018), where a functor can 'ignore' unsaturated positions in its arguments.

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Modification of DPs by epistemic adverbs

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Type Shifting

Hendriks¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics

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This chapter deals with syntactic categories, semantic types, and their relationship. It discusses proposals for associating the various natural language expressions in a syntactic category with interpretations of different semantic types, and shows that such a setup enables one to account for so‐called derivational or scope ambiguities. In the proposed flexible grammars, these interpretations are systematically related by means of so‐called type‐shifting principles. The chapter also addresses the question of whether such flexibility is in keeping with the principle of compositionality of interpretation.

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Glue Semantics

Asudeh

2022

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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Glue Semantics (Glue) is a general framework for semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface. The framework grew out of an interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of formal linguistics, formal logic, and computer science. Glue assumes a separate level of syntax; this can be any syntactic framework in which syntactic structures have heads. Glue uses a fragment of linear logic for semantic composition. General linear logic terms in Glue meaning constructors are instantiated relative to a syntactic parse. The separation of the logic of composition from structural syntax distinguishes Glue from other theories of semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface. It allows Glue to capture semantic ambiguity, such as quantifier scope ambiguity, without necessarily positing an ambiguity in the syntactic structure. Glue is introduced here in relation to four of its key properties, which are used as organizing themes: resource-sensitive composition, flexible composition, autonomy of syntax, and syntax/semantics non-isomorphism. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 8 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Making Logical Form type-logical: Glue semantics for Minimalist syntax

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Modification of DPs by epistemic adverbs

Modification of DPs by epistemic adverbs

Type Shifting

Glue Semantics

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