Meaning Versus Grammar: An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar

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1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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1. 0.1 A language machine
2. 0.2 Language and computability
3. 0.3 The book
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1. 1.1 The need for syntax
2. 1.2 Forms of Dutch
3. 1.3 The task for syntax
4. 1.4 The logic and the algebra of lists, flags, types and modes
5. 1.5 The calculi
6. 1.6 The case for Dutch
7. 1.7 The grammar of discontinuity and coordination
8. 1.8 Parsing the syntax
9. 1.9 Generating by syntax: agendas and linearization
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1. 2.1 The ways of meaning
2. 2.2 The forms of meaning
3. 2.3 Scope and specification
4. 2.4 Intensionality and semantic dependency
5. 2.5 Events and states: reification of predication
6. 2.6 Exploiting logical form for parsing
7. 2.7 Generating from logic
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1. 3.1 Storing knowledge of language
2. 3.2 Modes of lexical knowledge
3. 3.3 Unification: powering grammar conservatively
4. 3.4 The making of the lexicon
5. 3.5 Disclosing the lexicon: object-orientation and speed for semantic generation
6. 3.6 The lexicon while parsing
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1. 4.1 The three duals of grammar
2. 4.2 The conservativity of syntax
3. 4.3 The destructivity of semantics
4. 4.4 The denial of structure
5. 4.5 The mismatch of structure and meaning
6. 4.6 The lexicon as an oracle: the case of 'behalve'
7. 4.7 The incompleteness of grammar
8. 4.8 The fruit of incompleteness
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