We propose in this paper a new approach for representing the prosody/syntax interface. We use for this a particular formalism, called Property Grammars, in which all information is represented by means of constraints. We show how alignment constraints can implement such an interface. One of the interests of these constraints, in comparison with other approaches such as optimality theory, is the...

The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, using an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no seman...

end end total = 0, add = fun(n : Int) total := total + n Parser converts concrete syntax to the abstract representation Small number of language-specific components Large number of components provide abstractions common across several languages Sub-typing is handled separately to allow different sub-type regimes to be explored Interpreter uses type attributes to store type-derived information u...

The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, even within an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no...

During the last decades, linguistic theory has been concerned with the syntaxsemantics interface, mainly with issues linked to scope of operators (negation, quantifiers, modals) and with the syntactic or semantic nature of structural representations. One important trend in syntactic theory (for instance the cartographic approach) is devoted to the syntax-pragmatics interface, with strong argume...