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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Language dynamics and the dialogue challenge |
| Lecturer(s): | Ruth Kempson (King's College London) and Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh University) |
| Type: | Advanced Course |
| Section: | Logic and Language |
| Week: | Second | | Time: | 9.00-10.30 (Slot 1) |
| Webpage: | http://semantics.phil.kcl.ac.uk/ldsnl/
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| Reader: | Download | | Room: | A4 |
Description
Two properties of language remain unexplained in orthodox linguistic
theories:
(i) the extent of the dependence of natural language interpretation on
linear order,
(ii) the use of language in dialogue, with continual switching of
speaker/hearer roles.
Dynamic Syntax (DS: Kempson et al 2001) is a grammar formalism defined
in terms of how representations of content are built up on an
incremental left-right basis relative to context, following the
dynamics of parsing.
This course will argue that DS provides a natural characterisation of
both phenomena. Students are first introduced to the formal framework
with a number of case studies (the interaction of anaphora construal
and long-distance dependency effects, quantifier construal and
restrictive vs nonrestrictive relative clauses, resumptive pronouns,
expletives, the right roof constraint) leading to an articulation of
typologies for relative clauses and left/right periphery effects.
The course will then introduce the dialogue challenge facing linguists
(Pickering and Garrod 2004), and will show how the same DS tools may
be used to articulate a context-dependent model of production that
leads to an account of dialogue directly reflecting the reported
dialogue patterns.
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2004-07-07
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