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The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to promote a Humean question in linguistics and cognitive science: Why do we see limited constituency and dependency in natural languages, despite their diversity and potential infinity? A potential answer is that constituents and dependencies might have arisen from a single resource: adjacency. The combinatory formulation of adjacency constrains possible grammars.
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Combinatory linguistics, Cem Bozşahin
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Combinatory linguistics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cem Bozşahin
- Publisher
- de Gruyter Mouton
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 298
- ISBN10
- 3110251701
- ISBN13
- 9783110251708
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Textbooks, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Linguistics, Grammar, Semantics, Syntax, Composition, Word Order
- Description
- The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to promote a Humean question in linguistics and cognitive science: Why do we see limited constituency and dependency in natural languages, despite their diversity and potential infinity? A potential answer is that constituents and dependencies might have arisen from a single resource: adjacency. The combinatory formulation of adjacency constrains possible grammars.