Table of contents
Forewordv
Table of Contentsvii
List of Contributorsxi
Part I: Syntax
The Degree of Parallelism in Contextual Grammars with Minimal Competence Strategy3
The Syntactis Complexity of Internal Contextual Grammars and Languages17
On Ambiguity in Internal Contextual Languages29
Linguistic and Semiotic Preliminaries to Contextual Grammars47
Attempting to Define the Ambiguity of Internal contextual Languages59
Variants of Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems83
Part II: Semantics
Nonassociative and Commutative Categorial Grammars and their Languages113
Words as Modules: A Lexicalised Grammar in the Framework of Linear Logic Proof Nets129
A Metagrammatical Logical Formalism145
Word Meaning, Logic and the Informative Entailment Relation159
Accessible Similar Worlds and French Coherent Infinitival Constructions171
Part III: Natural Language Processing
Machine Translation of Motion Verbs from English into Spanish191
On the Complexity of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Machine Translation207
An Interval Algebra for Temporal Relations Conveyed by a Text223
Approximate Reasoning about Natural Language: A Certain Distributional-Mereological Model239
Bidirectional and Event-Driven Parsing with Multi Virtual Trees253
An LALR Extension for DCG’s in Dynamic Programming267
Part IV: Varia
Unrestricted Text into Prosodic Units. A Formal Description281
Concepts of Mathematical Linguistics: Means and Functional Domains295
A Model of Personal Pronouns311
A Mathematical Model for the Post-Creole Continuum in Hawaii327
Intaxis: a Syntactical Model of Intonation341
An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory359
Author Index375
Subject Index381