Edward P Stabler
Biographic Data
| ID | 998358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward P Stabler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward P |
| FAMILY NAME | Stabler |
| SIGNATURE | STABLER E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1257-5744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Three Mathematical Foundations for Syntax
Three different foundational ideas can be identified in recent syntactic theory: structure from substitution classes, structure from dependencies among heads, and structure as the result of optimizing preferences. As formulated in this review, it is easy to see that these three ideas are completely independent. Each has a different mathematical foundation, each suggests a different natural connection to meaning, and each implies something differe…
A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax
The goal of this paper is to give a precise, formal account of certain fundamental notions in minimalist syntax. Particular attention is given to the comparison of token-based (multidominance) and chain-based perspectives on Merge. After considering a version of Transfer that violates the No-Tampering Condition (NTC), we sketch an alternative,NTC-compliant version
Meta-meta-linguistics
Stokhof and van Lambalgen [40] suggest that modern linguistics has failed to meet the expectations one might have for it, that no consensus about central issues has emerged, and that this raises the fundamental question of whether modern linguistics is a failed discipline. They diagnose the problem as arising from treating language as grammar and linguistic competence as individual ability. Unlike the abstraction in the natural sciences, they say…
Language variation and linguistic invariants
Mathematics of language learning
Le présent article passe en revue plusieurs approches mathématiques importantes de l’apprentissage des langues/ langages. Nous mettons en lumière certains postulats fondamentaux communs, notamment le fait que toutes ces approches admettent des restrictions sur les facteurs capables d’influencer l’apprentissage. On notera qu’une part importante des travaux actuellement en cours dans ce domaine est précisément consacrée à la découverte et la justif…
Varieties of crossing dependencies
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (i) context sensitive rewrite grammars with rules that depend on context, (ii) matching grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language, (iii) copying grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size, and (iv) generating grammars in which crossing dependencies are generated from a finite lexical basis. Con…
Acquiring Languages with Movement
A simple kind of "minimalist" transformational grammar is defined to study the problem of learning a language in which pronounced constituents may have moved arbitrarily far from their original sites. In these grammars, all linguistic variation is lexical: constituent order is determined by lexical functional elements, and structure building operations are universal. Given universal constraints on the category system, these grammars can be identi…
Kripke on functionalism and automata
Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology
Quine's (1969) proposal that the foundationalist programs in epistemology should be abandoned in favor of a scientific study of how we come to hold our theories about the world is still widely misunderstood. It does not eliminate the possibility of rational adjudication of scientific dispute, nor is it essentially tied to behaviorist approaches in psychology. On the contrary, recent work in psychology and philosophy of science can very naturally …
Thought and Object
A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax
The goal of this paper is to give a precise, formal account of certain fundamental notions in minimalist syntax. Particular attention is given to the comparison of token-based (multidominance) and chain-based perspectives on Merge. After considering a version of Transfer that violates the No-Tampering Condition (NTC), we sketch an alternative,NTC-compliant version
Acquiring Languages with Movement
A simple kind of "minimalist" transformational grammar is defined to study the problem of learning a language in which pronounced constituents may have moved arbitrarily far from their original sites. In these grammars, all linguistic variation is lexical: constituent order is determined by lexical functional elements, and structure building operations are universal. Given universal constraints on the category system, these grammars can be identi…
Language variation and linguistic invariants
Varieties of crossing dependencies
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (i) context sensitive rewrite grammars with rules that depend on context, (ii) matching grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language, (iii) copying grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size, and (iv) generating grammars in which crossing dependencies are generated from a finite lexical basis. Con…
Kripke on functionalism and automata
Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology
Quine's (1969) proposal that the foundationalist programs in epistemology should be abandoned in favor of a scientific study of how we come to hold our theories about the world is still widely misunderstood. It does not eliminate the possibility of rational adjudication of scientific dispute, nor is it essentially tied to behaviorist approaches in psychology. On the contrary, recent work in psychology and philosophy of science can very naturally …
Thought and Object
Kripke on functionalism and automata
Acquiring Languages with Movement
A simple kind of "minimalist" transformational grammar is defined to study the problem of learning a language in which pronounced constituents may have moved arbitrarily far from their original sites. In these grammars, all linguistic variation is lexical: constituent order is determined by lexical functional elements, and structure building operations are universal. Given universal constraints on the category system, these grammars can be identi…
Varieties of crossing dependencies
Four different kinds of grammars that can define crossing dependencies in human language are compared here: (i) context sensitive rewrite grammars with rules that depend on context, (ii) matching grammars with constraints that filter the generative structure of the language, (iii) copying grammars which can copy structures of unbounded size, and (iv) generating grammars in which crossing dependencies are generated from a finite lexical basis. Con…
Mathematics of language learning
Le présent article passe en revue plusieurs approches mathématiques importantes de l’apprentissage des langues/ langages. Nous mettons en lumière certains postulats fondamentaux communs, notamment le fait que toutes ces approches admettent des restrictions sur les facteurs capables d’influencer l’apprentissage. On notera qu’une part importante des travaux actuellement en cours dans ce domaine est précisément consacrée à la découverte et la justif…
Language variation and linguistic invariants
Meta-meta-linguistics
Stokhof and van Lambalgen [40] suggest that modern linguistics has failed to meet the expectations one might have for it, that no consensus about central issues has emerged, and that this raises the fundamental question of whether modern linguistics is a failed discipline. They diagnose the problem as arising from treating language as grammar and linguistic competence as individual ability. Unlike the abstraction in the natural sciences, they say…
A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax
The goal of this paper is to give a precise, formal account of certain fundamental notions in minimalist syntax. Particular attention is given to the comparison of token-based (multidominance) and chain-based perspectives on Merge. After considering a version of Transfer that violates the No-Tampering Condition (NTC), we sketch an alternative,NTC-compliant version
Three Mathematical Foundations for Syntax
Three different foundational ideas can be identified in recent syntactic theory: structure from substitution classes, structure from dependencies among heads, and structure as the result of optimizing preferences. As formulated in this review, it is easy to see that these three ideas are completely independent. Each has a different mathematical foundation, each suggests a different natural connection to meaning, and each implies something differe…
Philosophy (7 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)