Syntacticism and Functional Completeness

Syntacticism and Functional Completeness
Author: Odysseus Makridis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1527556379

This book constructs an idealized version of what the author calls syntacticism, a school of thought in the philosophy of logic which is congenial to analytical philosophy, logical positivism, and anti-metaphysical nominalism. It examines in detail both technical metalogical and broad philosophic issues associated with this way of thinking about logic, and specifically addresses anomalies around symbolic expressivity, which is crucial for this approach, with a view to provide both a deeper understanding and a critique. The range of fields and interests addressed include: the philosophy of logic, formal logic and mathematical logic, the analytical school of philosophy, logical positivism and nominalism, parallels between thinking about logic and the formalist school in the philosophy of mathematics, the history of modern logic, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Leśniewski’s protothetic, dialogue logic, and combinatorial logic.

Syntactic architecture and its consequences I

Syntactic architecture and its consequences I
Author: András Bárány
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 562
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961102759

This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy which has long animated generative linguistics and which continues to grow thanks to the increasing amount and diversity of data available to us. The chapters address research questions on the relation of syntax to other aspects of grammar and linguistics more generally, including studies on language acquisition, variation and change, and syntactic interfaces. Many of these contributions show the influence of research by Ian Roberts and collaborators and give the reader a sense of the lively nature of current discussion of topics in synchronic and diachronic comparative syntax ranging from the core verbal domain to higher, propositional domains.

Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures

Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures
Author: Joybrato Mukherjee
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004488901

This study investigates prosody-syntax interactions from a functional perspective and based on authentic corpus data. Drawing on Halliday's well-known interpretation of the tone unit as an information unit, Halford's idea of a prosodically and syntactically defined talk unit and Esser's concept of abstract presentation structures, a modified talk unit model is developed. The talk unit is built up of one to many tone unit(s). The focus of both the quantitative and the functional analysis is on the interplay between prosodic status and syntactic status at tone unit boundaries by means of which talk units as parasyntactic units are established. The database is provided by a sample of about 50,000 words mainly taken from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English. The findings reveal that speakers have at their disposal and make use of prosody-syntax interactions in order to structure information effectively and to allow for or facilitate turn taking. This volume is not only of interest for corpus linguists, but for functionalists in general and intonationists in particular. In analysing the stylistic and pragmatic potential of talk units and applying corpus linguistic methodology, this study breaks new ground with regard to functional and empirical approaches to spoken English.

Lexical-Functional Syntax

Lexical-Functional Syntax
Author: Joan Bresnan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 111909920X

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021
Author: Osvaldo Gervasi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030869709

​The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 – 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 – 16, 2021. The event was organized in a hybrid mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The 466 full and 18 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 1588 submissions. The books cover such topics as multicore architectures, mobile and wireless security, sensor networks, open source software, collaborative and social computing systems and tools, cryptography, human computer interaction, software design engineering, and others. Part III of the set icludes papers on Information Systems and Technologies and the proceeding of the following workshops: International Workshop on Automatic landform classification: spatial methods and applications (ALCSMA 2021); International Workshop on Application of Numerical Analysis to Imaging Science (ANAIS 2021); International Workshop on Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency management, risk assessment and mitigationbased on the Resilience concepts (ASTER 2021); International Workshop on Advances in Web Based Learning (AWBL 2021).

Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods

Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
Author: Marta Cialdea Mayer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2003-09-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540407871

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2003, held in Rome, Italy in September 2003. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All current issues surrounding the mechanization of logical reasoning with tableaux and similar methods are addressed in the context of a broad variety of logic calculi.

Conquering Complexity

Conquering Complexity
Author: Mike Hinchey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447122968

Software has long been perceived as complex, at least within Software Engineering circles. We have been living in a recognised state of crisis since the first NATO Software Engineering conference in 1968. Time and again we have been proven unable to engineer reliable software as easily/cheaply as we imagined. Cost overruns and expensive failures are the norm. The problem is fundamentally one of complexity: software is fundamentally complex because it must be precise. Problems that appear to be specified quite easily in plain language become far more complex when written in a more formal notation, such as computer code. Comparisons with other engineering disciplines are deceptive. One cannot easily increase the factor of safety of software in the same way that one could in building a steel structure, for example. Software is typically built assuming perfection, often without adequate safety nets in case the unthinkable happens. In such circumstances it should not be surprising to find out that (seemingly) minor errors have the potential to cause entire software systems to collapse. The goal of this book is to uncover techniques that will aid in overcoming complexity and enable us to produce reliable, dependable computer systems that will operate as intended, and yet are produced on-time, in budget, and are evolvable, both over time and at run time. We hope that the contributions in this book will aid in understanding the nature of software complexity and provide guidance for the control or avoidance of complexity in the engineering of complex software systems.

The Nature of Syntactic Representation

The Nature of Syntactic Representation
Author: Pauline Jacobson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9400977077

The work collected in this book represents the results of some intensive recent work on the syntax of natural languages. The authors' differing viewpoints have in common the program of revising current conceptions of syntactic representation so that the role of transformational derivations is reduced or eliminated. The fact that the papers cross-refer to each other a good deal, and that authors assuming quite different fram{:works are aware of each other's results and address themselves to shared problems, is partly the result of a conference on the nature of syntactic representation that was held at Brown University in May 1979 with the express purpose of bringing together different lines of research in syntax. The papers in this volume mostly arise out of work that was presented in preliminary form at that conference, though much rewriting and further research has been done in the interim period. Two papers are included because although they were not given even in preliminary form at the conference, it has become clear since then that they interrelate with the work of the conference so much that they cannot reasonably be left out: Gerald Gazdar's statement of his program for phrase structure description of natural language forms the theoretical basis that is assumed by Maling and Zaenen and by Sag, and David Dowty's paper represents a bridge between the relational grammar exemplified here in the papers by Perlmutter and Postal on the one hand and the Montague

Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation

Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation
Author: Cassandre Creswell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2004-12-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135876215

Interest in statistical natural language generation is rapidly increasing. This work sheds important light from theoretical linguistics on the type of information crucial to statistical NLG algorithms.

Constituent Order in Functional Grammar

Constituent Order in Functional Grammar
Author: John H. Connolly
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110875837

The purpose of the present work is to explore the description of Constituent Ordering (CO) within the Functional Grammar (FG) framework. The aim is to show how it is possible to achieve a comprehensive description of CO and of CO change which takes properly into account not only the formal or structural properties of ordering but also the part which CO plays in linguistic communication.