6 papers
Quantifiers, Anaphora, and Intensionality
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira +1
The relationship between Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) {\em functional structures} (f-structures) for sentences and their semantic interpretations can be expressed directly in a…
Linear Logic for Meaning Assembly
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira +1
Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the mea…
Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification
Mary Dalrymple, Stuart M. Shieber, Fernando C. N. Pereira
We present a new method for characterizing the interpretive possibilities generated by elliptical constructions in natural language. Unlike previous analyses, which postulate ambig…
The Semantics of Resource Sharing in Lexical-Functional Grammar
Andrew Kehler, Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping +1
We argue that the resource sharing that is commonly manifest in semantic accounts of coordination is instead appropriately handled in terms of structure-sharing in LFG f-structures…
A Deductive Account of Quantification in LFG
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira +1
The relationship between Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) functional structures (f-structures) for sentences and their semantic interpretations can be expressed directly in a fragm…
Intensional Verbs Without Type-Raising or Lexical Ambiguity
Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping, Fernando Pereira +1
We present an analysis of the semantic interpretation of intensional verbs such as seek that allows them to take direct objects of either individual or quantifier type, producing b…