| Park, Jong. 1996. A Lexical Theory of Quantification in Ambiguous Query Interpretation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Technical Report MS-CIS--96-26/IRCS-96-27. |
.... The brother of, and John believes that, Pete slept. It seems worth exploring an alternative response to these observations concerning interactions of surface structure and scope taking. The present paper follows Woods (1975) VanLehn (1978) Webber (1978) Fodor (1982) Fodor and Sag (1982) and Park (1995, 1996), in explaining scope ambiguities in terms of a distinction between true generalized quantifiers and other purely referential categories. For example, in order to capture the narrow scope object reading for Geach s right node raised sentence (8b) in whose CCG derivation the object must command ....
....Quantifier Scope We may assume (at least for English) that even the non standard constituents created by function composition in CCG cannot increase the number of quantifiable arguments for an operator beyond the limit of three or four imposed by the lexicon. It follows that the observation of Park (1995, 1996) that only quantified arguments of a single (possibly composed) function can freely alternate scope places an upper bound on the number of readings. The logical form of an n quantifier sentence is a term with an operator of valency 1, 2 or 3, whose argument(s) must either be quantified expressions ....
Park, Jong. 1996. A Lexical Theory of Quantification in Ambiguous Query Interpretation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Technical Report MS-CIS--96-26/IRCS-96-27.
....as published has been shown to be 4 (Shieber, 1986) contains a detailed discussion of subsumption. 4 incomplete (Hepple, 1987) Wittenburg and Wall (1991) use a compilation scheme but compromise the notion of flexible constituency required for coordination (Steedman, 1985) and quantifier scope (Park, 1996). Eisner (1996) makes an argument against the semantic approach, showing that a type of ambiguity exemplified by A=A . A . AnA where the order of semantic modification may intercalate can slow down the parser exponentially. But as long as we are required to enumerate the complete set of ....
Park, Jong Cheol. 1996. A Lexical Theory of Quantification in Ambiguous Query Interpretations. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
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Jong C. Park. A lexical theory of quantification in ambiguous query interpretation. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
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