This interesting and original work applies descriptive complexity theory to the study of natural languages. The first part of the book (64 pages) characterizes the strong generative capacity of context-free grammars in logical terms. The second part (122 pages) discusses the generative capacity of government and binding (GB) theories. The book deserves the close attention of computational lingu...

Building upon the known generalized-quantifier-based first-order characterization of LOGCFL, we lay the groundwork for a deeper investigation. Specifically, we examine subclasses of LOGCFL arising from varying the arity and nesting of groupoidal quantifiers. Our work extends the elaborate theory relating monoidal quantifiers to NC and its subclasses. In the absence of the BIT predicate, we reso...

The concept of legal pluralism has been used widely in scholarship to draw attention the existence multiple orders. Scholars have relied upon it avoid ideology centralism, counter colonialism, and highlight neglect Indigenous laws. These are ameliorative approaches, which aim expand law for particular purposes. But is not clear that they help explain what does. In this article, I contrast these...