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! Author !! Year !! Title !! Notes | ! Author !! Year !! Title !! Notes !! Beginner-friendly | ||
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| | | Chomsky || 1957 || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_Structures Syntactic Structures] || Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Dense and old but important. || | ||
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| | | Montague || 1973 || [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2506-5_10 The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English.] || Describes a small loglang-like fragment of English and explores its syntax-semantics interface. || | ||
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| Radford || 2004 || Minimalist syntax: Exploring the Structure of English || Nice intro to the Minimalist Program. | | Cowan || 1997 || [https://mw.lojban.org/papri/The_Complete_Lojban_Language The Complete Lojban Language] || On [[Lojban]]. || | ||
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| Heim & Kratzer || 1998 || [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Semantics-in-generative-grammar-Heim-Kratzer/0dc0d0cfebc2ea1f88c64a159a76d0cb8258bff9 Semantics in generative grammar] || Introduced "Predicate Modification" etc. || | |||
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| Radford || 2004 || Minimalist syntax: Exploring the Structure of English || Nice intro to the Minimalist Program. || | |||
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| McKay || 2006 || [[Plural Predication]] || Introduces some [[plural logic]] ideas. Philosophical. || | |||
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| Santorini || 2007 || [https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/ The syntax of natural language: An online introduction] || Free, | | Santorini || 2007 || [https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/ The syntax of natural language: An online introduction] || Free, accessible intro to syntax in general. || ✅ | ||
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| Barker & Shan || 2014 || [https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575015.001.0001 Continuations and Natural Language] || Promising book? Nice solution to [[donkey anaphora]] etc | | Barker & Shan || 2014 || [https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575015.001.0001 Continuations and Natural Language] || Promising book? Nice solution to [[donkey anaphora]] etc || | ||
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|[https://people.umass.edu/scable/LING753-SP20/Handouts/6.Moulton-2015.pdf Arguments Against CPs as Arguments] | |[https://people.umass.edu/scable/LING753-SP20/Handouts/6.Moulton-2015.pdf Arguments Against CPs as Arguments] | ||
|CPs make more sense now. | |CPs make more sense now. | ||
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| Gluckman || 2020 || [https://opentext.ku.edu/syntax/ The Science of Syntax] || Another nice intro to syntax. More modern and data-oriented. || ✅ | |||
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| Bumford & Charlow || 2022 || [https://simoncharlow.com/esslli/ Effectful composition in natural language semantics (ESSLLI slides)] || Oh yeah. this is the stuff || | |||
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| Coppock & Champollion || ongoing || [https://eecoppock.info/bootcamp/semantics-boot-camp.pdf Invitation to Formal Semantics] || Friendly, huge textbook that covers a ''lot'' of topics. || ✅ | |||
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| | | Cirdelli et al || 2018 || [https://academic.oup.com/book/35968 Inquisitive Semantics] || Introduces a way to model questions and assertions using a unified model. It also requires (at least up to a certain point) only a basic understanding of how propositions are usually modeled in semantics. || ✅ish | ||
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| | | Cirdelli || 2022 || [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-09706-5 Inquisitive Logic] || No one has read this one, but the people thinking about adding inqsem to Toaq would probably care about reading it, so I've added it to the list || Unknown | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:31, 25 September 2024
This page collects books and papers we like.
| Author | Year | Title | Notes | Beginner-friendly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chomsky | 1957 | Syntactic Structures | Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Dense and old but important. | |
| Montague | 1973 | The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English. | Describes a small loglang-like fragment of English and explores its syntax-semantics interface. | |
| Cowan | 1997 | The Complete Lojban Language | On Lojban. | |
| Heim & Kratzer | 1998 | Semantics in generative grammar | Introduced "Predicate Modification" etc. | |
| Radford | 2004 | Minimalist syntax: Exploring the Structure of English | Nice intro to the Minimalist Program. | |
| McKay | 2006 | Plural Predication | Introduces some plural logic ideas. Philosophical. | |
| Santorini | 2007 | The syntax of natural language: An online introduction | Free, accessible intro to syntax in general. | ✅ |
| Barker & Shan | 2014 | Continuations and Natural Language | Promising book? Nice solution to donkey anaphora etc | |
| Moulton | 2015 | Arguments Against CPs as Arguments | CPs make more sense now. | |
| Gluckman | 2020 | The Science of Syntax | Another nice intro to syntax. More modern and data-oriented. | ✅ |
| Bumford & Charlow | 2022 | Effectful composition in natural language semantics (ESSLLI slides) | Oh yeah. this is the stuff | |
| Coppock & Champollion | ongoing | Invitation to Formal Semantics | Friendly, huge textbook that covers a lot of topics. | ✅ |
| Cirdelli et al | 2018 | Inquisitive Semantics | Introduces a way to model questions and assertions using a unified model. It also requires (at least up to a certain point) only a basic understanding of how propositions are usually modeled in semantics. | ✅ish |
| Cirdelli | 2022 | Inquisitive Logic | No one has read this one, but the people thinking about adding inqsem to Toaq would probably care about reading it, so I've added it to the list | Unknown |