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Against Grammatical Competition: The Case of MaxElide

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There have been proposed various principles of grammar which rely on competition, whereby one derivation is blocked on the basis of a competing one. This paper begins with the premise that all competition effects should be located in speaker/hearer principles, not formal grammatical principles as the latter greatly complicates the grammar. We focus on one case study: MaxElide. We show that given a variable free semantics (Jacobson 1999) the effects of this principle fall out from type rather than size competition: speakers will frame things with ‘missing material’ to use simpler types over more complex ones, on the assumption that the simpler types are easier for listeners to supply.

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  1. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Pauline Jacobson

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan

    Kazuhiro Kojima

  2. University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Maki Sakamoto

  3. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Mineshima

  4. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Ken Satoh

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Jacobson, P. (2019). Against Grammatical Competition: The Case of MaxElide. In: Kojima, K., Sakamoto, M., Mineshima, K., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11717. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31605-1_17

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