Characterizing mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms
Characterizing mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms
An alternative conception of tree-adjoining derivation
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Synchronous tree-adjoining grammars
COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Extraction phenomena in synchronous TAG syntax and semantics
SSST '07 Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
Complexity, parsing, and factorization of tree-local multi-component tree-adjoining grammar
Computational Linguistics
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In relative clauses, the wh relative pronoun can be embedded in a larger phrase, as in a boy [whose brother] Mary hit. In such examples, we say that the larger phrase has pied-piped along with the wh-word. In this paper, using a similar syntactic analysis for wh pied-piping as in Han (2002) and further developed in Kallmeyer and Scheffler (2004), I propose a compositional semantics for relative clauses based on Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar. It will be shown that (i) the elementary tree representing the logical form of a wh-word provides a generalized quantifier, and (ii) the semantic composition of the pied-piped material and the wh-word is achieved through adjoining in the semantics of the former onto the latter.