Semantically inactive multiplicatives and words as types

The literature on categorial type logic includes proposals for semantically inactive additives, quantifiers, and modalities (Morrill 1994[17]; Hepple 1990[2]; Moortgat 1997[9]), but to our knowledge there has been no proposal for semantically inactive multiplicatives. In this paper we formulate such...

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Autores: Morrill, Glyn|||0000-0002-5528-4384, Valentín Fernández Gallart, José Oriol
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
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:2117/28038
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/28038
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1_12
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computational linguistics
Calculations
Semantics
Lingüística computacional
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica::Algorísmica i teoria de la complexitat
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Sumario:The literature on categorial type logic includes proposals for semantically inactive additives, quantifiers, and modalities (Morrill 1994[17]; Hepple 1990[2]; Moortgat 1997[9]), but to our knowledge there has been no proposal for semantically inactive multiplicatives. In this paper we formulate such a proposal (thus filling a gap in the typology of categorial connectives) in the context of the displacement calculus Morrill et al. (2011[16]), and we give a formulation of words as types whereby for every expression w there is a corresponding type W(w). We show how this machinary can treat the syntax and semantics of collocations involving apparently contentless words such as expletives, particle verbs, and (discontinuous) idioms. In addition, we give an account in these terms of the only known examples treated by Hybrid Type Logical Grammar (HTLG henceforth; Kubota and Levine 2012[4]) beyond the scope of unaugmented displacement calculus: gapping of particle verbs and discontinuous idioms.