Generalized quantifiers in declarative and interrogative sentences

Raffaella Bernardi (1) , Richard Moot (1, 2, 3)

1 UiL OTS - Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
2 SIGNES - Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language
3 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

In this paper we present a logical system able to compute the semantics of both declarative and interrogative sentences. Our proposed analysis takes place at both the sentential and at the discourse level. We use syntactic inference on the sentential level for declarative sentences, while the discourse level comes into play for our treatment of questions. Our formalization uses a type logic sensitive to both the syntactic and semantic properties of natural language. We will show how an account of the linguistic data follows naturally from the logical relations inherent in the type logic.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Raffaella Bernardi, Richard Moot. Generalized quantifiers in declarative and interrogative sentences. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2003, 11 (4), pp.419-434. ⟨hal-00278795⟩