Economy and Semantic Interpretation

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MIT Press, 2000 - 215 من الصفحات

Exploring the relevance of principles of optimization to the interface between syntax and semantics.

In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of covert operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics series.

 

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InterpretationSensitive Economy 17
2
Reconstruction Chapter 5
8
Economy and Scope 19 2 1 Scope Economy Quantifier
22
Generalization
35
Coordination
48
Raising
62
Shifting Operations?
74
Asymmetries in Ellipsis and the Nature 3 1 Problems with the Account of
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Impossible
130
Chapter 5
141
Reconstruction
147
Landing Sites
164
Interpretation of Chains
171
Fox 1995a
179
Chapter 5
191
Name Index
211

Scope Generalization Follows from
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Chapter 4
109

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