MoL-2013-17: Constituentless Compositionality: A Compositional Account of Dependency Grammar

MoL-2013-17: Nefdt, Ryan (2013) Constituentless Compositionality: A Compositional Account of Dependency Grammar. [Report]

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Abstract

In this research, I investigate the principle of compositionality from
a formal linguistic point of view. I describe the natural language
debate surrounding the principle and argue against the usual reasons
in its favour according to systematicity, productivity and linguistic
infinity. I then discuss the principle with relation to the formal
languages used in modeling natural languages. I argue that the
principle is valid in this domain of abstraction only given complexity
and infinity issues. Finally, I attempt to provide a compositional
treatment of a non-constituency based grammar formalism, dependency
grammar, using underspecification and head semantics

Item Type:	Report
Report Nr:	MoL-2013-17
Series Name:	Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series
Year:	2013
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Logic; Language; Formal Semantics; Dependancy Grammar; Compositionality; Formal Language Theory
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2016 14:38
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2016 14:38
URI:	https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/906

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