In contrast to the "designer logic" approach, this paper shows how the attribute-value feature structures of unification grammar and constraints on them can be axiomatiz...
A compositional semantics for focusing subjuncts-words such as only, even, and also--is developed from Rooth's theory of association with focus. By adapting the theory so tha...
Referring expressions and other object descriptions should be maximal under the Local Brevity, No Unnecessary Components, and Lexical Preference preference rules; otherwise, they ...
The principle known as 'free indexation' plays an important role in the determination of the referential properties of noun phrases in the principleand-parameters langua...
We analyse the computational complexity of phonological models as they have developed over the past twenty years. The major results ate that generation and recognition are undecid...