Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, LACL 2014, Toulouse, France, June 18-24, 2014. Proceedings /

Regular Articles -- Building PMCFG Parsers as Datalog Program Transformations -- Representing Anaphora with Dependent Types -- An Interpretation of Full Lambek Calculus in Its Variant without Empty Antecedents of Sequents -- Adverbs in a Modern Type Theory -- An Algebraic Approach to Multiple Context-Free Grammars -- An ACG View on G-TAG and Its g-Derivation -- On Harmonic CCG and Pregroup Grammars -- The Granularity of Meaning in Proof-Theoretic Semantics -- Late Merge as Lowering Movement in Minimalist Grammars -- Pseudogapping as Pseudo-VP Ellipsis -- Monotonicity Reasoning in Formal Semantics Based on Modern Type Theories -- Semantically Inactive Multiplicatives and Words as Types -- Generalising Predicate and Argument Invariance.-Invited Speaker -- Formal Semantics in Modern Type Theories: Is It Model-Theoretic, Proof-Theoretic or Both?.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2014) held in Toulouse, France, in June 2014. On the broadly syntactic side, there are papers on the logical and computational foundations of context free grammars, pregroup grammars, on the Lambek calculus and on formalizations of aspects of minimalism. There is also a paper on Abstract Categorical Grammar, as well as papers on issues at the syntax/semantics interface. On the semantic side, the volume's papers address monotonicity reasoning, and the semantics of adverbs in type theory, proof theoretical semantics and predicate and argument invariance.