Optionality, Scope, and Licensing ESSLLI 2007 CD Version
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This paper uses a partially ordered set of syntactic categories to accommodate optionality and licensing in natural language syntax. A complex but well-studied data set pertaining to the syntax of quantifier scope and negative polarity licensing in Hungarian is used to illustrate the proposal. The presentation is geared towards both linguists and logicians. The main ideas can be implemented in different grammar formalisms; in this paper the partial ordering on categories is given by the derivability relation of a calculus with residuated and galois-connected unary operators.
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