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Worth, Andrew Christopher.

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English Coordination in Linear Categorial Grammar.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	English Coordination in Linear Categorial Grammar./
Author:	Worth, Andrew Christopher.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	190 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-06A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10145297
ISBN:	9781369008296

English Coordination in Linear Categorial Grammar.
Worth, Andrew Christopher.

English Coordination in Linear Categorial Grammar. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 190 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2016.

Coordination is a rich and common phenomenon that occurs when at least two linguistic expressions co-occur with a coordinating conjunction between them. While earlier proposals insisted that the phenomenon was limited to expressions of "like category", it was later observed in Sag et al. 1985 that the restriction is somewhat weaker, in that the any expression combining with a coordinate structure must be "syntactically construable" with each conjunct.

ISBN: 9781369008296Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

English Coordination in Linear Categorial Grammar.
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520 $a Coordination is a rich and common phenomenon that occurs when at least two linguistic expressions co-occur with a coordinating conjunction between them. While earlier proposals insisted that the phenomenon was limited to expressions of "like category", it was later observed in Sag et al. 1985 that the restriction is somewhat weaker, in that the any expression combining with a coordinate structure must be "syntactically construable" with each conjunct.
520 $a Logical categorial grammars can broadly be divided into two classes of grammars: Lambek grammars, which make use of the ordered implication connectives \ and /, and curryesque grammars, which encode phenogrammar (linear position, roughly) and tectogrammar (syntactic combinatorics) in different components, typically using the typed lambda calculus and its associated intuitionistic implication → for the former, and linear implication ---o for the latter. Lambek categorial grammars have historically provided straightforward analyses of coordination, but have struggled to analyze certain other phenomena such as medial extraction and quantifier "lowering". By contrast, curryesque grammars analyze these phenomena easily, but struggle with directionally sensitive phenomena such as coordination. A number of different proposals have been extended to remedy the deficiencies of Lambek grammars, but the coordination problem has remained intractable for curryesque grammars. If the curryesque program is to be a viable one for formalizing natural language, this must be addressed.
520 $a Linear Categorial Grammar (LCG) is a curryesque grammar formalism, and as such, suffers from the concomitant difficulties analyzing coordination. This dissertation discusses the mechanics of LCG, and then extends it to LCG ϕ, Linear Categorial Grammar with Phenogrammatical Subtyping, by adding a restricted form of Lambek and Scott-style subtyping (Lambek and Scott 1986) to LCG. We specify certain predicates over strings called phenominators, and use these together with subtyping to show how the necessary distinctions can be restored to the phenogrammar in order to enable an analysis of a broad variety of coordinate structures, and we construct a fragment doing exactly this.
520 $a Once this has been accomplished, we turn to other, more complex coordination phenomena. First, we discuss so-called predicatives, expressions which can serve as the complements of verbs of predication such as is and became. We discuss a number of different kinds of predicatives, and show that more is required in order to analyze such constructions. We build on work originating in Bayer 1996 and continuing with Morrill 1994 and Pollard and Hana 2003, and add the "additive disjunction" connective &oplus; from linear logic to show how this can be used to model the combinatorial properties of verbs of predication. We extend a result from Pollard and Hana 2003 by adding the "coordination monad" type constructor O, which addresses an inconsistency in the underlying theory, and enables analysis of so-called "unlike category coordination" (UCC). We revise and expand our fragment to cover a large number of examples of UCC. We also provide a brief discussion of argument neutrality, which, while not terribly relevant for English, is nevertheless related to UCC, and we show that a well-known analysis of the phenomenon can be encoded in LCG as well.
520 $a We then turn to the understudied area of iterated coordination, or list coordination, wherein a number of nonfinal conjuncts appear in a list, usually with some associated prosody. We show that these constructions can be analyzed by adding the multiset type constructor, which we write (--)+ , to the tectogrammar, and the list type constructor, which we write [], to the phenogrammar along with its associated term constructors cons and the empty list. We revise and expand our fragment to show how examples of iterated coordination can be given an analysis in LCGϕ, as well as showing how iterated coordination interacts with unlike category coordination.
520 $a Finally, we discuss a number of outstanding issues, and suggest several future avenues for research on coordination in LCG. We summarize the results given in the dissertation and conclude that at least with respect to English coordination, the curryesque program is still viable, and that LCG remains a sufficiently expressive grammar formalism.
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