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Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum

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Research paper thumbnail of 7. Just how big are natural languages?

Recursion and Human Language, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Pragmatics and Presupposition

Language, 1976

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Research paper thumbnail of Special Volume Introduction

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Feb 1, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of REVIEW ARTICLE Linguistics at the beginning of the 2ISt century

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Research paper thumbnail of A road map for interoperable language resource metadata

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Research paper thumbnail of A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup

Computers and the Humanities, 1995

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Research paper thumbnail of On a class of not ungrammatical constructions

Journal of Linguistics, 1982

Langendoen and Bever (1973) contended that both expressions in (1) are ungrammatical in English, ... more Langendoen and Bever (1973) contended that both expressions in (1) are ungrammatical in English, despite the acceptability of the first to native speakers of English.(1) (a) a not unhappy person(b) a not sad personWe came to this conclusion because we believed, first, that all grammars of natural languages should be subject to a constraint ‘M’ that no syntactic rule is able to make use of the morphological structure of lexemes (1973:402); and, second, that we had shown that no grammar that satisfies M can distinguish the grammaticality of(1a) from that of (1b). Our exact wording of M was as follows: ‘no syntactic transformational rule is permitted to make use of the internal morphological structure of lexical items’. Since the only syntactic rules of the standard theory, within which we were operating that are not transformations are base-categorial rules, which by definition make no use of the internal morphological structure of lexical items, the word ‘transformational’ in our for...

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Research paper thumbnail of Expressing Language Resource Metadata as Linked Data: The Case of the Open Language Archives Community

Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition), 2006, Pages 165–167

This biography of Jerrold J. Katz focuses on his main contributions to linguistic theory and the ... more This biography of Jerrold J. Katz focuses on his main contributions to linguistic theory and the philosophy of language. His accomplishments include (1) developing the first comprehensive theory of semantics within generative grammar, (2) proposing that language is an abstract rather than a physical or mental object, and (3) challenging the Fregean notions that sense determines reference and that semantic form is equivalent to logical form. In addition to his general semantic theory, Katz worked out detailed accounts of presupposition, illocutionary force, idioms and names, and published authoritatively on the work of such philosophers as René Descartes, Gottlob Frege,

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Research paper thumbnail of An analysis of coordinate compounding

This paper deals with the analysis of coordinate compound expressions into the phrases that are c... more This paper deals with the analysis of coordinate compound expressions into the phrases that are compounded and the elements that join them together. We call these, respectively, members and connectives. Coordinate compounds are understood as conjunctions or as disjunctions, depending on the connective that links its members. We begin by considering unmixed coordinate compounds, in which disjunctions do not appear as members of conjunctions and conjunctions do not appear as members of disjunctions. Two major classes of unmixed coordinate compounds are distinguished, depending on whether connectives appear in them. Following traditional grammar, coordinate compounds with one or more connectives joining its members are called syndetons; the others are called asyndetons. Asyndetons, unlike syndetons, cannot have coordinate compounds as members. We account for this property by proposing that asyndetons are not constituents of the phrases that contain them. On the other hand, since syndet...

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Research paper thumbnail of Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Theory

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2010

In this paper, we overview the ways in which computational methods can serve the goals of analysi... more In this paper, we overview the ways in which computational methods can serve the goals of analysis and theory development in linguistics, and encourage the reader to become involved in the emerging cyberinfrastructure for linguistics. We survey examples from diverse subfields of how computational methods are already being used, describe the current state of the art in cyberinfrastructure for linguistics, sketch a pie-in-the-sky view of where the field could go, and outline steps that linguists can take now to bring about better access to and use of linguistic data through cyberinfrastructure.

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Research paper thumbnail of Limitations on embedding in coordinate structures

Coordinate structures have traditionally been analyzed as having no internal structure other than... more Coordinate structures have traditionally been analyzed as having no internal structure other than the sequencing of their members. * In particular, the possibility that the members of coordinate structures may themselves be coordinate structures has not been widely recognized. Those who have recognized the possibility of such embedding of coordinate structures have assumed that there are no limits on the depth of such embedding, just as there are no limits on the depth of embedding in subordinate structures. However, coordinate-structure embedding in English occurs only in order to prevent coordinate structures from containing distinct connectives (e.g. and and or), distinct junctures (breaks) between members, and sequences of members in which the first is introduced by a connective while the second is not. In order to prevent these conditions from arising, the depth of coordinate-structure embedding does not have to exceed 2. This limitation on coordinate-structure embedding must b...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Generative Capacity of Word-Formation Components

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Research paper thumbnail of The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics

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Research paper thumbnail of A Linguistic Ontology for the Semantic Web

Abstract: IntroductionThe World Wide Web has the potential to become aprimary source for storing ... more Abstract: IntroductionThe World Wide Web has the potential to become aprimary source for storing and accessing linguisticdata, including data of the sort that are routinelycollected by field linguists. Having large amounts oflinguistic data on the Web will give linguists, indigenouscommunities, and language learners access toresources that have hitherto been difficult to obtain.For linguists, scientific data from the world's languageswill be

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Research paper thumbnail of Finite-State Parsing of Phrase-Structure Languages and the Status of Readjustment Rules in the Grammar

Linguistic Inquiry, 1975

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Research paper thumbnail of Mundari Verb Conjugation

Linguistics, 1967

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Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Final Report

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Research paper thumbnail of Limitations on Embedding in Coordinate Structures

J Psycholinguist Res, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum

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Research paper thumbnail of 7. Just how big are natural languages?

Recursion and Human Language, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Pragmatics and Presupposition

Language, 1976

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Research paper thumbnail of Special Volume Introduction

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Feb 1, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of REVIEW ARTICLE Linguistics at the beginning of the 2ISt century

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Research paper thumbnail of A road map for interoperable language resource metadata

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Research paper thumbnail of A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup

Computers and the Humanities, 1995

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Research paper thumbnail of On a class of not ungrammatical constructions

Journal of Linguistics, 1982

Langendoen and Bever (1973) contended that both expressions in (1) are ungrammatical in English, ... more Langendoen and Bever (1973) contended that both expressions in (1) are ungrammatical in English, despite the acceptability of the first to native speakers of English.(1) (a) a not unhappy person(b) a not sad personWe came to this conclusion because we believed, first, that all grammars of natural languages should be subject to a constraint ‘M’ that no syntactic rule is able to make use of the morphological structure of lexemes (1973:402); and, second, that we had shown that no grammar that satisfies M can distinguish the grammaticality of(1a) from that of (1b). Our exact wording of M was as follows: ‘no syntactic transformational rule is permitted to make use of the internal morphological structure of lexical items’. Since the only syntactic rules of the standard theory, within which we were operating that are not transformations are base-categorial rules, which by definition make no use of the internal morphological structure of lexical items, the word ‘transformational’ in our for...

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Research paper thumbnail of Expressing Language Resource Metadata as Linked Data: The Case of the Open Language Archives Community

Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition), 2006, Pages 165–167

This biography of Jerrold J. Katz focuses on his main contributions to linguistic theory and the ... more This biography of Jerrold J. Katz focuses on his main contributions to linguistic theory and the philosophy of language. His accomplishments include (1) developing the first comprehensive theory of semantics within generative grammar, (2) proposing that language is an abstract rather than a physical or mental object, and (3) challenging the Fregean notions that sense determines reference and that semantic form is equivalent to logical form. In addition to his general semantic theory, Katz worked out detailed accounts of presupposition, illocutionary force, idioms and names, and published authoritatively on the work of such philosophers as René Descartes, Gottlob Frege,

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Research paper thumbnail of An analysis of coordinate compounding

This paper deals with the analysis of coordinate compound expressions into the phrases that are c... more This paper deals with the analysis of coordinate compound expressions into the phrases that are compounded and the elements that join them together. We call these, respectively, members and connectives. Coordinate compounds are understood as conjunctions or as disjunctions, depending on the connective that links its members. We begin by considering unmixed coordinate compounds, in which disjunctions do not appear as members of conjunctions and conjunctions do not appear as members of disjunctions. Two major classes of unmixed coordinate compounds are distinguished, depending on whether connectives appear in them. Following traditional grammar, coordinate compounds with one or more connectives joining its members are called syndetons; the others are called asyndetons. Asyndetons, unlike syndetons, cannot have coordinate compounds as members. We account for this property by proposing that asyndetons are not constituents of the phrases that contain them. On the other hand, since syndet...

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Research paper thumbnail of Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Theory

Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2010

In this paper, we overview the ways in which computational methods can serve the goals of analysi... more In this paper, we overview the ways in which computational methods can serve the goals of analysis and theory development in linguistics, and encourage the reader to become involved in the emerging cyberinfrastructure for linguistics. We survey examples from diverse subfields of how computational methods are already being used, describe the current state of the art in cyberinfrastructure for linguistics, sketch a pie-in-the-sky view of where the field could go, and outline steps that linguists can take now to bring about better access to and use of linguistic data through cyberinfrastructure.

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Research paper thumbnail of Limitations on embedding in coordinate structures

Coordinate structures have traditionally been analyzed as having no internal structure other than... more Coordinate structures have traditionally been analyzed as having no internal structure other than the sequencing of their members. * In particular, the possibility that the members of coordinate structures may themselves be coordinate structures has not been widely recognized. Those who have recognized the possibility of such embedding of coordinate structures have assumed that there are no limits on the depth of such embedding, just as there are no limits on the depth of embedding in subordinate structures. However, coordinate-structure embedding in English occurs only in order to prevent coordinate structures from containing distinct connectives (e.g. and and or), distinct junctures (breaks) between members, and sequences of members in which the first is introduced by a connective while the second is not. In order to prevent these conditions from arising, the depth of coordinate-structure embedding does not have to exceed 2. This limitation on coordinate-structure embedding must b...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Generative Capacity of Word-Formation Components

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Research paper thumbnail of The semantics of markup: Mapping legacy markup schemas to a common semantics

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Research paper thumbnail of A Linguistic Ontology for the Semantic Web

Abstract: IntroductionThe World Wide Web has the potential to become aprimary source for storing ... more Abstract: IntroductionThe World Wide Web has the potential to become aprimary source for storing and accessing linguisticdata, including data of the sort that are routinelycollected by field linguists. Having large amounts oflinguistic data on the Web will give linguists, indigenouscommunities, and language learners access toresources that have hitherto been difficult to obtain.For linguists, scientific data from the world's languageswill be

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Research paper thumbnail of Finite-State Parsing of Phrase-Structure Languages and the Status of Readjustment Rules in the Grammar

Linguistic Inquiry, 1975

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Research paper thumbnail of Mundari Verb Conjugation

Linguistics, 1967

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Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Final Report

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Research paper thumbnail of Limitations on Embedding in Coordinate Structures

J Psycholinguist Res, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of The logic of coordinate nominals

This paper extends the calculus of individuals with a new ordering and definition of disjunction ... more This paper extends the calculus of individuals with a new ordering and definition of disjunction that makes it equivalent to free distributive lattices of the type first investigated by Richard Dedekind. It investigates situations in which some or all of the individuals in the domain are not distinguished and in which they can be grouped by predicates, and shows how the resulting classes of individuals can be identified by quantifiers or quantified expressions.

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Research paper thumbnail of Languages as complete and distinct systems of reference

Section 1 is an extended commentary on Edward Sapir's formulation nearly a century ago of what he... more Section 1 is an extended commentary on Edward Sapir's formulation nearly a century ago of what he considered two fundamental properties of human language, first that each one is a formally complete system of reference to experience and second that each one is formally distinct from every other. Section 2 considers some aspects of the development of these formulations, noting that they have been considered separately and not integrated as fully fleshed out systems of reference, as Sapir envisioned. Section 3 examines more closely what such an integration looks like in a case involving simple arithmetic. Section 4 begins with a brief review of the accomplishments of Greco-Roman logic and more recent developments in the theory of logic, leading to a consideration of what may be needed to fulfill Sapir's program. Section 5 summarizes some of my own recent research on extending first-order logic by replacing the unordered set of individuals with a specific ordering of a set of sets of individuals that is isomorphic to an ordering of a set of sets of numbers that contain no pairs of divisible numbers, which was investigated by Richard Dedekind shortly before the turn of the twentieth century.

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Research paper thumbnail of Languages as complete and distinct systems of reference

Section 1 is an extended commentary on Edward Sapir's formulation nearly a century ago of what he... more Section 1 is an extended commentary on Edward Sapir's formulation nearly a century ago of what he considered two fundamental properties of human language, first that each one is a formally complete system of reference to experience and second that each one is formally distinct from every other. Section 2 considers some aspects of the development of these formulations, noting that they have been considered separately and not integrated as fully fleshed out systems of reference, as Sapir envisioned. Section 3 examines more closely what such an integration looks like in a case involving simple arithmetic. Section 4 begins with a brief review of the accomplishments of Greco-Roman logic and more recent developments in the theory of logic, leading to a consideration of what may be needed to fulfill Sapir's program. Section 5 summarizes some of my own recent research on extending first-order logic by replacing the unordered set of individuals with a specific ordering of a set of sets of individuals that is isomorphic to an ordering of a set of sets of numbers that contain no pairs of divisible numbers, which was investigated by Richard Dedekind shortly before the turn of the twentieth century.

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