Edited by Erhard W. Hinrichs and John Nerbonne
In Theory and Evidence in Semantics, editors Erhard W. Hinrichs and
John Nerbonne present a series of state-of-the-art papers that
investigate the interface of natural language semantics with other
modules of grammar—such as morphology, syntax, and pragmatics—and
pursue applications of semantic theory in computational
linguistics. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field,
and strongly influenced by the seminal work of David R. Dowty in
model-theoretical semantics, the papers provide novel accounts of
highly complex sets of semantic phenomena, including anaphora,
coordination, ellipsis, interrogatives, and negative and collective
predicates, as well as tense and aspect.
Erhard W. Hinrichs is Professor of General and Computational
Linguistics at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in
Germany. John Nerbonne is Professor of Information Science at the
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Contributors
- Introducing Theory and Evidence in Semantics
Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Reconstruction as delayed evaluation
Chris Barker
- 2 Selectional Preferences for Anaphora Resolution
Erhard Hinrichs and Holger Wunsch
- 3 The swarm alternation revisited
Jack Hoeksema
- 4 Representation or Meanings?
Pauline Jacobson
- 5 Approximate Interpretations of Number Words
Manfred Krifka
- 6 Compositional Interpretation
Peter N. Lasersohn
- 7 Quantitatively Detecting Semantic Relations
John Nerborne and Tim Van de Cruys
- 8 know-how: A compositional approach
Craige Roberts
- 9 Cells and paradigms in inflectional semantics
Gregory Stump
- 10 Right-Node Wrapping
Neal Whitman
- Index
March 2009