Continuations and Natural Language

by Chris Barker and Chung-Chieh Shan

Book Overview

This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning. Summarizing more than a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan put forward the Continuation Hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation. In Part I, the authors develop a continuation-based theory of scope and quantificational binding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199575029
• ISBN13: 9780199575022
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"