Strong Generative Capacity: The Semantics of Linguistic Formalism - Brossura

Miller, Philip H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 157586214X ISBN 13: 9781575862149

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2000

Riassunto

The concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early sixties in order to characterize descriptive capacity. However, the original definition proposed by Chomsky turned out to be unusable, especially when one wished to compare the SGC of different types of formalisms. This book provides for the first time a rigorous and useful characterization of SGC, defining it as the model theoretic semantics of linguistic formalism. Specifically, abstract interpretation domains are defined in theory-neutral set-theoretical terms, and the SGC of a theory with respect to a given interpretation domain is characterized as the range of a specific interpretation function mapping structural descriptions of that theory into elements of that domain. Interpretation domains are defined for such notions as labeled constituency, dependency, endocentricity and linking and applied to the analysis of a range of linguistic formalisms, among which context-free grammars, dependency grammars, X-bar grammars, tree-adjoining grammars, transformational grammars and categorial grammars.

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This book provides for the first time a rigorous and useful characterization of the Chomskyan concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC), defining it as the model theoretic semantics of linguistic formalism. The SGC of a theory with respect to a given interpretation domain is characterized as the range of a specific interpretation function.

Contenuti

1. Classical definitions of weak and strong generative capacity; 2. Constituency, dependency, labeling and ordering; 3. Strong generative capacity: the semantics of linguistic formalism; 4. Constituency, dependency, ordering, and endocentricity in phrase structure grammars; 5. Aspects of the strong generative capacity of categorial grammars; 6. Linking systems; 7. Conclusion; References.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 157586214X
• ISBN 13: 9781575862149
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
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