Barker, Chris

Continuations and natural language / Chris Barker and Chung-Chieh Shan - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 - xix, 228 p

towers: scope and evaluation order ---
scope and towers;
binding and crossover;
from generalized quantifiers to dynamic meaning;
multi-level towers: inverse scope;
movement as delayed evaluation: wh-fronting;
reconstruction effects;
generalized coordination, flexible Montague grammar;
order effects in negative polarity licensing;
donkey anaphora and donkey crossover;
strategies for determiners;
other combinatory categorial frameworks;
computational connections;
--- logic: same and sluicing ---
NL;
parasitic scope for same;
scope versus discontinuity: anaphora, VPE;
sluicing as anaphora to a continuation;
formal properties of NLA;
scope needs delimited continuations


9780199575022 (pbk)


Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order
Computational linguistics

401.43 / B2411