Glue semantics
Glue semantics is a theory of the syntax-semantics interface according to which meanings of the parts of a linguistic unit are paired with instructions specifying how those meanings can be assembled into the meaning of the whole linguistic unit. These assembly instructions are expressed in terms of...
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| description | Glue semantics is a theory of the syntax-semantics interface according to which meanings of the parts of a linguistic unit are paired with instructions specifying how those meanings can be assembled into the meaning of the whole linguistic unit. These assembly instructions are expressed in terms of a resource logic, linear logic. Glue is not dependent on a particular set of syntactic assumptions, and can be adopted in a variety of syntactic settings. Glue also does not constrain the form in which meanings are represented: meanings can be expressed in any formal system that supports function abstraction and function application. We present the fundamentals of glue, including the treatment of quantifier scope and scope ambiguities. We provide a guide to the existing glue literature by discussing and comparing different formats for glue contributions that have been adopted in previous work, and we discuss proposals for integrating glue with a variety of syntactic frameworks including Lexical Functional Grammar, Minimalism, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and with a variety of semantic theories including event semantics and dynamic semantics. We conclude with a partial inventory of semantic analyses that have adopted a glue approach. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e9feb383-ac81-4933-a66c-a0758719a9a02025-01-09T14:31:58ZGlue semanticsBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:e9feb383-ac81-4933-a66c-a0758719a9a0EnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer2024Asudeh, ADalrymple, MGlue semantics is a theory of the syntax-semantics interface according to which meanings of the parts of a linguistic unit are paired with instructions specifying how those meanings can be assembled into the meaning of the whole linguistic unit. These assembly instructions are expressed in terms of a resource logic, linear logic. Glue is not dependent on a particular set of syntactic assumptions, and can be adopted in a variety of syntactic settings. Glue also does not constrain the form in which meanings are represented: meanings can be expressed in any formal system that supports function abstraction and function application. We present the fundamentals of glue, including the treatment of quantifier scope and scope ambiguities. We provide a guide to the existing glue literature by discussing and comparing different formats for glue contributions that have been adopted in previous work, and we discuss proposals for integrating glue with a variety of syntactic frameworks including Lexical Functional Grammar, Minimalism, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and with a variety of semantic theories including event semantics and dynamic semantics. We conclude with a partial inventory of semantic analyses that have adopted a glue approach. |
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