Formal Grammar 2018 : 23rd International Conference, FG 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 11-12, 2018, Proceedings

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Formal Grammar, FG 2018, collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in August 2018. The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions.The focus of papers are as follows: * Formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and * pragmatics * Model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics * Logical aspects of linguistic structure * Constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar * Learnability of formal grammar * Integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar * Foundational, methodological, and architectural issues in grammar and linguistics * Mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Formal Grammar, FG 2018, collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in August 2018. The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. The focus of papers are as follows: Formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics Model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics Logical aspects of linguistic structure Constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar Learnability of formal grammar Integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar Foundational, methodological, and architectural issues in grammar and linguistics Mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis Front Matter ....Pages I-IX Feature Resolution by Lists: The Case of French Coordination (Gabriel Aguila-Multner, Berthold Crysmann)....Pages 1-15 Paracompositionality, MWEs and Argument Substitution (Cem Bozşahin, Arzu Burcu Güven)....Pages 16-36 Case Theory in Minimalist Grammars (Sabine Laszakovits)....Pages 37-61 A Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality from Uyghur Backness Harmony (Connor Mayer, Travis Major)....Pages 62-83 Bracket Induction for Lambek Calculus with Bracket Modalities (Glyn Morrill, Stepan Kuznetsov, Max Kanovich, Andre Scedrov)....Pages 84-101 Stripping Isn’t so Mysterious, or Anomalous Scope, Either (Daniel Puthawala)....Pages 102-120 Lithuanian Phrasal Comparatives Without Covert Syntactic Structures (Elena Vaikšnoraitė)....Pages 121-135 Back Matter ....Pages 137-137