This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning. Summarizing more than a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chungchieh Shan put forward the Continuation Hypothesis that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation. In Part I, the authors develop a continuationbased theory of scope and quantificational binding and provide an explanation for order sensitivity in scoperelated phenomena such as scope ambiguity, crossover, superiority, reconstruction, negative polarity licensing, dynamic anaphora, and donkey anaphora. Part II outlines an innovative substructural logic for reasoning about continuations and proposes an analysis of the compositional semantics of adjectives such as same in terms of parasitic and recursive scope. It also shows that certain cases of ellipsis should be treated as anaphora to a continuation, leading to a new explanation for a subtype of sluicing known as sprouting.

Binding: Hardcover;252 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: CFA; Weight: 658 g; Dimensions: 166 x 243 x 23

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