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Importing Montagovian Dynamics into Minimalism

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Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2012)

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Minimalist analyses typically treat quantifier scope interactions as being due to movement, thereby bringing constraints thereupon into the purview of the grammar. Here we adapt De Groote’s continuation-based presentation of dynamic semantics to minimalist grammars. This allows for a simple and simply typed compositional interpretation scheme for minimalism.

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Kobele, G.M. (2012). Importing Montagovian Dynamics into Minimalism. In: BĂ©chet, D., Dikovsky, A. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7351. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31262-5_7

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