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Glue Semantics
Fyodor Sizov edited this page Jan 20, 2023
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- Glue Semantics (Glue) is a general framework for semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface.
- The framework grew out of an interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of formal linguistics, formal logic, and computer science.
- Glue assumes a separate level of syntax; this can be any syntactic framework in which syntactic structures have heads.
- Glue uses a fragment of linear logic for semantic composition.
- General linear logic terms in Glue meaning constructors are instantiated relative to a syntactic parse.
- The separation of the logic of composition from structural syntax distinguishes Glue from other theories of semantic composition and the syntax–semantics interface.
- It allows Glue to capture semantic ambiguity, such as quantifier scope ambiguity, without necessarily positing an ambiguity in the syntactic structure.
- The four properties of Glue:
- resource-sensitive composition
- flexible composition
- autonomy of syntax
- syntax/semantics non-isomorphism.
Glue assumes a commutative logic for semantic composition (i.e., order does not matter). This means that Glue needs to be paired with some independent syntactic framework.