The Logical Approach to Syntax: Foundations, Specifications, and Implementations of Theories of Government and Binding (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

Jr., Edward P. Stabler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262193159 ISBN 13: 9780262193153

Verlag: MIT Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

By formalizing recent syntactic theories for natural languages in the tradition of Chomsky's Barriers, Stabler shows how their complexity can be handled without guesswork or oversimplification. He introduces logical representations of these theories together with special deductive techniques for exploring their consequences that will provide linguists with a valuable tool for deriving and testing theoretical predictions and for experimenting with alternative formulations of grammatical principles.Stabler's novel approach allows results to be deduced with straightforward calculations and provides a systematic framework for tackling the problem of how speakers can infer the properties of an utterance from principles of the grammar. The special treatment of equality, induction principles, and inclusion of a general method for collecting structures from proofs means that sophisticated linguistic arguments can be carried out in detail, giving a rich perspective to issues in linguistic theory and parsing.Edward P. Stabler, Jr., is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Edward P. Stabler, Jr., is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Maurice Wilkes retired from his post at Cambridge University in 1980, when he became a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor at MIT.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0262193159
• ISBN 13: 9780262193153
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 452
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