Inverse scope as metalinguistic quotation in operational semantics

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Chieh Shan

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers University

  • Venue:
  • JSAI'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We model semantic interpretation operationally: constituents interact as their combination in discourse evolves from state to state. The states are recursive data structures and evolve from step to step by context-sensitive rewriting. These notions of context and order let us explain inverse-scope quantifiers and their polarity sensitivity as metalinguistic quotation of the wider scope.