1. Natural language and logical analysis 1.1 Compositionality and Frege’s puzzles 1.2 Montague Grammar 1.3 The nature of meaning-postulates 2. Towards a new theory of meaning and interpretation 2.1 Anaphora in Montague grammar 2.2 Discourse 2.3 The fallacy of misplaced information 3. Theories of dynamic interpretation 3.1 Discourse representation theory 3.2 Situation semantics 3.3 Quantificatio...

This paper describes how language is grounded by a comprehension system called Lucia within a robotic agent called Rosie that can manipulate objects and navigate indoors. The whole system is built within the Soar cognitive architecture and uses Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG) as a formalism for describing linguistic knowledge. Grounding is performed using knowledge from the grammar itself, ...

Recent FMRI studies indicate that language related brain regions are engaged in artificial grammar (AG) processing. In the present study we investigate the Reber grammar by means of formal analysis and network simulations. We outline a new method for describing the network dynamics and propose an approach to grammar extraction based on the state-space dynamics of the network. We conclude that s...

The problem of establishing transferable language structures is considered. The key idea is developing a synergistic approach combining semantic grammar rules with the machine learning mechanisms of grammar rules extraction from parallel text corpora. The predesigned rules are founded on the unified cognitive structures extracted from the systems of grammar categories of the Russian and English...

language acquisition is a varied field, and there is an ocean of approaches from which one can investigate first/second language acquisition. these approaches root in different fields, basically linguistics. as for linguistics, research in language acquisition ranges from structural and generative-transformational to cognitive linguistics. while in contrast with each other in main respects theo...

This article reviews the impact of modern theoretical views on our understanding of the nature and purpose of the grammar of Pāṇini (ca. 350 BCE), and argues that new possibilities for progress open up for our understanding of this ancient grammar by confronting it not with the presuppositions of generative grammar as has been done – with undeniable but limited theoretical profit -in the last f...

According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communication among autonomous agents, particularly maximisation of communicative success and expressive power and minimisation of cognitive effort. Experiments in the emergence of grammar should hence start from a simulation of communica...

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein supersedes the TAG grammar described in [XTAG-Group,1995]. The English grammar described in this report is based on the TAG formalism developed in [ Joshi et al., 1975], which has been extended to include lexicalization ([Sc...

This paper gives an automatic morpho-syntactical analysis with the ACCG parser which use the Categorial Grammar, the Combinatory Logic in the framework of Cognitive and Applicative Grammar. We focus on the contribution of the parser to the analysis of morphological case system in Korean.