A note on movement in logical grammar

In this article, we make some brief remarks on overt and covert movement in logical grammar. With respect to covert movement (e.g. quantification), we observe how a treatment in terms of displacement calculus interacts with normal modalities for intensionality to allow a coding in logical grammar of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Morrill, Glyn|||0000-0002-5528-4384
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/130224
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/130224
https://dx.doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v6i2.233
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computational linguistics
Language and logic
Covert and overt movement
Parasitic extraction
Relativisation
Weak and strong quantification
Lingüística computacional
Llenguatge i lògica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
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Sumario:In this article, we make some brief remarks on overt and covert movement in logical grammar. With respect to covert movement (e.g. quantification), we observe how a treatment in terms of displacement calculus interacts with normal modalities for intensionality to allow a coding in logical grammar of the distinction between weak and strong quantifiers (i.e. those that may or may not scope nonlocally such as a and every respectively). With respect to overt movement (e.g. relativisation), we observe how displacement calculus can support a coding of a linear filler-gap dependency similar to that employed in lambda grammars, but we argue that this general approach does not extend to either the multiplicity nor the island-sensitivity of parasitic gaps, for which we advocate instead treatment in terms of a bracket-conditioned contraction subexponential.