Crit Cremers

Modal Merge and Minimal Move for Dislocation and Verb Clustering

Apparently non-related phenomena like wh-movement and Dutch verbclustering can be handled as bounded varieties of generalizedcomposition in a categorial framework. This supports theunification of merge and move from an operationalpoint of view. It abstracts away from hypothetical reasoning as aninstrument of grammatical deduction.

NL from logic: connecting entailment and generation

The paper introduces an index of fully-specified logical form for unrestricted natural language. The index is argued to facilitate both computation of entailment and generation under semantic control.