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Type logic served by co-Merge, Merge and Move: an account for sluicing and questions of `common European' and Japanese types

Zakharyaschev, Ivan (2007) Type logic served by co-Merge, Merge and Move: an account for sluicing and questions of `common European' and Japanese types. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

We explore the power of type-logical grammar as a linguistic theory, specifically, of a new tentative development inside the framework—a “symmetricized” Lambek Calculus, due to [Moortgat2005]. The basis for our discussion is an account we give for constructions involving questions and—in particular—involving sluicing; it seeks to solve puzzles these constructions have been setting for linguistic theory. Two things in the organization of grammar are of interest here: first, a uniform system joining structures from the surface side (syntactic) and structures from the “mind side” (discourse)—we call MERGE and co-MERGE the relations by which the former and the latter structures are arranged; second, a view on the circumstances of performing MOVE (by Syntax) from the type-logical perspective. As it is usual for type-logical grammars, the theory is conscious of semantics. We refer to examples from Japanese, on one side, and from English and Russian, on the other.

Item Type:Conference Paper
Additional Information:The Russian spelling of the author's name is: Иван Захарьящев
Keywords:Non-associative Lambek calculus; Symmteric Non-associative Lambek calculus; type-logical grammar; questions; sluicing; sluicing-based NPs; movement; anaphora; WH-items; WH-words; WH-extraction; pied-piping; Japanese; English; Russian
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science > Language
Linguistics > Semantics
Linguistics > Syntax
Philosophy > Logic
ID Code:8713
Deposited By: Zakharyaschev, Ivan
Deposited On:09 Nov 2012 19:58
Last Modified:18 Feb 2013 15:13

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