Crossroads Semantics : Computation, Experiment and Grammar.

Intro -- Crossroads Semantics -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Bridging theoretical and experimental linguistic research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is at stake? -- 3. Metho ds of measurement -- 3.1 Offline versus online data collection -- 3.2 Online data in ellipsis research -- 4. Towar ds a unified research program -- 4.1 Three levels of analysis -- 4.2 Computational (psycho)linguistics -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Data and its use -- Chapter 2. Experimental research: Problems and opportunities in the big-data era -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The questionable empirical toolbox -- 2.1 Bias -- 2.2 Null h ypothesis testing -- 2.3 Theory testing -- 3. Scientific publications and evaluation -- 3.1 The economy of the publication and evaluation systems -- 3.2 Alternatives for the evaluation system -- 4. More data, more problems? -- References -- Chapter 3. Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Non-local dependencies in the Lassy Corpus -- 4. Long-distance dependencies -- 5. Long distance dependencies with non-finite clauses -- 6. Resumptive prolepsis -- 7. R-pronominal parasitic gaps -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. How to compare speed and accuracy of syntactic parsers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: The Alpino parser for Dutch -- 3. Methodology: Balancing efficiency and accuracy -- 3.1 On-line and off-line parsing scenarios -- 3.2 Accuracy: Comparing sets of dependencies -- 4. Learning efficient parsing -- 4.1 Left-corner parsing -- 4.2 Left-corner splines -- 4.3 Filtering left-corner splines -- 4.4 Comparison with link table -- 4.5 Implementation detail -- 5. Experimental results -- 5.1 Results on Alpino Treebank -- 5.2 Effect of the amount of training data.

5.3 Experiment with D-Coi data -- 6. Specializing lexical categories -- 7. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Adposition clusters in Dutch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adpos ition clustering exists -- 2.1 A first attempt -- 2.2 A second attempt -- 3. Ident ifying the clustering adpositions -- 3.1 Retrieval -- 3.2 Filtering -- 3.3 An objection and its rebuttal -- 4. Prope rties of the Dutch adposition clusters -- 5. Concl usion -- References -- Chapter 6. Polarity licensing and intervention by conjunction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chier chia's account -- 3. Asymm etric conjunction -- 4. Polar ity items in conjunctions -- 5. Movem ent of NPIs: A way out? -- 6. Furth er problems -- 7. Concl usions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. Frequential test of (S)OV as unmarked word order in Dutch and German clauses: A serendipitous corpus-linguistic experiment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metho dology -- 3. Three frequential tests -- 4. Discu ssion: Time and fluency pressures can boost VO:OV ratios -- References -- Appendices -- Appendi x A. The six treebanks used in the present study -- Appendi x B. Computing bias and coverage values -- Appendi x C. The Top50 verbs (lemmas) in the six treebanks -- Chapter 8. Kratzer's effect in the nominal domain: Fake indexicals in Dutch and German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fake indexicals -- 3. Kratzer (2009) -- 4. Problems and extensions -- 5. Theoretical implementation -- 6. Application in English -- 7. Variational semantics -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9. Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?: Is bilingual speech production language-specific or non-specific?: The case of gender congruency in Dutch-English bilinguals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment - semantic interference and gender congruency effects in a bilingual picture-word interference paradigm.

2.1 Methods -- 2.2 Results -- 3. Discussion -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Overview of Stimuli used -- Appendix B . Frequency of words reported to be unknown in all subjects -- Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Structure-prosody -- 1.2 Prosody of RRC and ARC -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Stimuli -- 2.2 Procedure -- 2.3 Statistical analysis -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Chapter 11. Licensing distributivity: The role of plural morphology -- 1. Introd uction -- 2. Some p reliminaries -- 3. The role of VP number in licensing distributivity: British English group NPs -- 4. Plural isation as the semantic correlate of number inflection: The (im)possibility of atom/set coordination -- 4. Plural isation as the semantic correlate of number inflection: The (im)possibility of atom/set coordination -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Implementation and theory building -- Chapter 12. Extending categorial grammar to phonology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A simple categorial system -- 3. Autosegmental categorial grammar -- 4. Feature repulsion -- 5. Interaction with morphosyntax -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13. Stacking up for the long way down -- 1. Directionality -- 1.1 Bottom-up structure building -- 1.2 Top-down structure building -- 2. Cyclicity -- 3. Locality -- 3.1 Strong islands: Absolute opacity -- 3.2 Weak islands: Intervention and path containment -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 14. Meaning between algebra and culture: Auto-antonyms in the Ewe verb lexicon -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Meaning construction: some assumptions -- 2. Antony my in language and thought.

3. Janus verb words in Ewe -- 3.1 What th e Ewe dictionaries say -- 3.2 The ver b mie -- 3.3 The ver b dró -- 4. Conclu ding remarks -- References -- Chapter 15. Whether you like it or not, this is a paper about or not -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The "whether…or type" -- 3. The "question or not type" -- 4. The "assertion or…not type" -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 16. Between desire and necessity: The complementarity of want and need -- 1. Three properties distinguishing need from want -- 1.1 Selection -- 1.2 Raising vs. control -- 1.3 Want as need/*need as want -- 1.4 Grammaticalization? -- 1.5 Towards an analysis -- 2. A raising configuration for want and need -- 3. The sy ntactic and semantic representation of want and need -- 4. From desirability to apparent necessity -- 5. From desirability to probability -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17. Inner aspect and the comparative quantifiers -- 1. The big picture -- 2. Compar ative quantifiers and mereological approaches to aspect -- 3. VPs wi th undergoers quantified by comparative quantifiers -- 4. Progre ssives and comparatively quantified undergoers -- 5. Defini te descriptions -- 6. Presup position and contrastiveness do not explain the facts -- 7. Other vague quantifiers -- 8. Numera l quantification and telicity -- 9. Conclu sion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 18. The expressive en maar-construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The in finitive -- 2.1 Root infinitive versus nominal infinitive -- 2.2 What is the "clausal size" of the root infinitive? -- 3. On the syntactic behaviour and interpretation of maar -- 4. Some s peculations on the expressivity of 'en' -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

If we want to fully understand the phenomenon of language meaning, we must not limit our research to lexical semantics, syntax-induced meaning or pragmatics. In order to construct a consistent account of meaning, we need to extract relevant information from research done in different frameworks and from different theoretical standpoints.

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