Optionality,Scope, and Licensing: An Application of Partially Ordered Categories |
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Authors: | Raffaella Bernardi Anna Szabolcsi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, 39100, Italy;(2) Department of Linguistics, New York University, 726 Broadway, Rm. 726, New York, NY 10003, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper uses a partially ordered set of syntactic categories to accommodate optionality and licensing in natural language
syntax. A complex but well-studied data set pertaining to the syntax of quantifier scope and negative polarity licensing in
Hungarian is used to illustrate the proposal. The presentation is geared towards both linguists and logicians. The paper highlights
that the main ideas can be implemented in different grammar formalisms, and discusses in detail an implementation where the
partial ordering on categories is given by the derivability relation of a calculus with residuated and Galois-connected unary
operators. |
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Keywords: | Partial order Residuation Galois-connection Boolean connectives Typed feature structures Natural language syntax Scope Polarity items Licensing Optionality |
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