16.1 Semantic Underspecification

The grammars we've used so far contains no semantic information -- they do not say how the semantic representation of a phrase can be constructed nor what it is. We will now show how to represent the semantics of a sentence by dominance constraints. Dominance constraints permit to model quantifier scope in an underspecified manner.

• 16.1.1 Compositionality

• 16.1.2 Scope Underspecification

• 16.1.3 Formulas as Trees

• 16.1.4 Graphs Describing Trees

• 16.1.5 Dominance Constraints

• 16.1.6 Syntax-Semantics Interface

• 16.1.7 Exercises