>Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:07:55 +0100 (BST)
>From: ruth kempson <kempson@dcs.kcl.ac.uk>
>To: relevance <relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
>Dear All,
>
>In follow up to Anne Bezuidenhout's note, people might be interested to
>know that a new draft ms of now 165 pages will be getting distributed later
>this summer at the LSA summer school in Germany. This is an introduction to
>Dynamic Syntax written directly for the regular linguist, so has less of the
>formalism than the Dynamic Syntax book that Anne refers to.
>
>This book covers some of the same ground as the earlier book, but develops
>typologies of relative clauses and left dislocation structures on a
>cross-linguistic basis. The general idea behind these chapters is to
>articulate the interaction between structural and anaphoric processes on the
>assumption that anaphoric construal is invariably pragmatic. Then there is
>a chapter specific to verb-final languages, which turn out to be
>unproblematic, given this dynamic perspective. Chapters to follow are
>expected to include a chapter on coordination, a chapter on right-periphery
>phenomena, and a chapter evaluating the aims of this venture, which will
>include discussion of language production, and dialogue.
>
>Whether this second book is easier to read than the first will have to be
>judged by folk like yourselves. Leaving out aspects of formalism isn't
>necessarily as helpful as one hopes.
>
>This book is co-authored by me, Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh) and Lutz Marten
>(SOAS). Hopefully, one of us will get it up on a website at some point
>during the summer. We might even manage to get it on the site Dan has just
>recommended to everyone.
>
>Ruth
>
>Ruth Kempson
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anne Bezuidenhout" <annebez@gwm.sc.edu>
>To: "relevance" <relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
>Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:51 AM
>Subject: Re.: RT and other theories
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Steve Nicolle recently asked for suggestions for plausible syntactic
>> theories compatible with RT.
>>
>> I suggest Kempson, Myer-Viol & Gabbay's Dynamic Syntax (DS). This seems
>> to be a framework that is tailor-made for RT.
>>
>> DS is an approach to natural language syntax that is built around the
>> idea that parsing of natural language sentences is an incremental,
>> linear left-to-right process.
>>
>> DS is a grammar formalism that was originally developed as a way to
>> represent and make more precise the RT claim that lexical expressions
>> underdetermine their interpretation in context. But the formalism grew
>> beyond concerns with underspecification, and is intended as a framework
>> for representing the syntactic properties of natural languages more
>> generally.
>>
>> DS may not be as well developed as some of the other grammatical
>> theories mentioned by Steve Nicolle, such as LFG, GB and P&P. However,
>> in Kempson, Myer-Viol & Gabbay's recent book Dynamic Syntax (Blackwell
>> 2000), they show how their framework can handle syntactic problems such
>> as relative clauses, WH-questions, crossover phenomena and quantifier
>> scope.
>>
>> There was a review of this book on Linguist List recently by Simon
>> Musgrave (Linguist List 13.467 Wed Feb 20 2002), which gives a handy
>> synopsis of the book for those who haven't yet seen a copy.
>>
>> Regards, Anne.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anne Bezuidenhout
>> Department of Philosophy
>> University of South Carolina
>> Columbia, SC 29208
>> U.S.A
>> Tel (803) 777-3738
>> Fax (803) 777-9178
>> anne1@sc.edu
>>
>
>
>
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