Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

✍ Scribed by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 98
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives in formal semantics research. It consists of unpublished work by some key researchers on various issues related to the type theoretical study of formal semantics and further exemplifies the advantages of using modern type theoretical approaches to linguistic semantics. Themes that are covered include modern developments of type theories in formal semantics, foundational issues in linguistic semantics like anaphora, modality and plurals, innovational interdisciplinary research like the introduction of probability theory to type theories as well as computational implementations of type theoretical approaches. This volume will be of great interest to formal semanticists that are looking for alternative ways to study linguistic semantics, but will also be of interest to theoretical computer scientists and mathematicians that are interested in the applications of type theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Modern Perspectives in Type Theoretical Semantics....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Context-Passing and Underspecification in Dependent Type Semantics....Pages 11-41
On the Interpretation of Common Nouns: Types Versus Predicates....Pages 43-70
Adapting Type Theory with Records for Natural Language Semantics....Pages 71-94
Generalized Quantifiers on Dependent Types: A System for Anaphora....Pages 95-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Types, Meanings and Co-composition in Lexical Semantics....Pages 135-161
Classifiers, Sorts, and Base Types in the Montagovian Generative Lexicon and Related Type Theoretical Frameworks for Lexical Compositional Semantics....Pages 163-188
Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing....Pages 189-222
Intensions, Types and Finite-State Truthmaking....Pages 223-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
The Grail Theorem Prover: Type Theory for Syntax and Semantics....Pages 247-277
Probability Distributions in Type Theory with Applications in Natural Language Syntax....Pages 279-296

✦ Subjects

Semantics;Computational Linguistics;Logic;Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities