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Here you can find some of the available Dynamic Syntax publications. For more information, problems and to submit papers please contact Eleni Gregoromichelaki.

2011

Julian Hough (2011). Incremental Semantics Driven Natural Language Generation with Self-Repairing Capability. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, pages 79-84, Hissar Bulgaria, September 2011.
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Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver and Julian Hough (2011) DyLan: Parser for Dynamic Syntax.(Technical report).
pdf 336KB

Kempson, R., Gregoromichelaki, E. and Howes, C. (2011). The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces. CSLI Publications.

Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Ruth Kempson, Matt Purver, Gregory James Mills, Ronnie Cann, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Patrick G.T. Healey (2011). Incrementality and intention-recognition in utterance processing. In: Dialogue and Discourse journal, special issue on Incremental Processing in Dialogue.

Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough (2011). Incremental Semantic Construction in a Dialogue System. In: 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Oxford, January 2011.
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Gregoromichelaki, E. Kempson, R, Mills, G. NL grammars as models for language use: incrementality and context integration. Meaning and Context Conference, UWE, Bristol 13-15 April 2011  

Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi, Ronnie Cann, Christine Howes, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Julian Hough, Graham White, Patrick Healey (in prep) On the processing of elliptical fragments: a preliminary report.
pdf, 355KB

2010

Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios (2010). CLITICS IN FOUR DIALECTS OF MODERN GREEK: A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT. PhD Thesis. King's College London.
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Cann, R, Kempson, R., Wedgwood, D. forthcoming. Representationalism and linguistic knowledge. Draft paper to appear in Kempson, R. Fernando, T, and Asher, N. (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics. Elsevier.
pdf, 320KB
 
Matthew Purver, Arash Eshghi and Julian Hough. Dialogue Processing as Incremental Lattice Extension. Invited talk at Dynamic Models of Natural Language Understanding: A Conference in Honour of Ruth Kempson and Her Contribution to Linguistics, SOAS, November 2010.
 
Arash Eshghi, Patrick Healey, Matthew Purver, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson. Incremental Turn Processing in Dialogue. In Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, York, UK, September 2010.
 

Mills, G. J. and Gregoromichelaki, E. [2010] Establishing coherence in dialogue: sequentiality, intentions and negotiation. In Proceedings of SemDial (PozDial). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland 16-18th June.
 
Matthew Purver, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Ronnie Cann. Splitting the I's and Crossing the You's: Context, Speech Acts and Grammar. In SemDial 2010 (PozDial), Poznan, Poland, June 2010.
pdf, 110KB
 
Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Matthew Purver, Graham White and Ronnie Cann. Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal. In Proceedings of the PRELUDE Workshop on Games, Dialogues and Interaction, to appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010.
pdf, 210KB
 
Chatzikyriakidis and Kempson 2010. Standard Modern and Pontic Greek Person Restrictions: A feature-free Dynamic Account (submitted)
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Chatzikyriakidis, S., 2010. Clitic climbing in Grecia Salentina Greek: A Dynamic Account. In: Ralli, A., & Karasimos, A., Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, Chios 2009.
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Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Greg Mills, Matthew Purver, Christine Howes and Patrick Healey. On Dialogue Modelling, Language Processing Dynamics, and Linguistic Knowledge. To appear in Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen, February 2010. 
pdf, 103KB
 
Gregoromichelaki, E. (2010). "Clitic Left Dislocation and Clitic Doubling: A Dynamic Perspective on Left-Right Asymmetries in Greek". In: Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective. John Benjamins.
pdf, 317KB
 
Kempson, R. and Kiaer, J. (2010) Multiple long-distance scrambling: Syntax as reflections of processing. Journal of Linguistics, 46 , pp 127-192
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Mills, G.J and Gregoromichelaki [2010] Joint projects: intentions, sequences, negotiation. Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Chicago Aug. 16-18.

Kempson, Cann and Purver (forthcoming in 2010) "Talking and Listening: Dialogue and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface" In Kasher, A. (ed.) Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, Routledge.
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2009

Chatzikyriakidis, S., 2009. Clitics in Grecia Salentina Greek: A Dynamic Account. Lingua 119. 1939-1968.
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Matthew Purver, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Patrick Healey. Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2009, London, September 2009.
pdf, 130KB
 
Gargett, A, Gregoromichelaki, E, Kempson, R, Purver, M and Sato, Y. (2009) "Grammar Resources for Modelling Dialogue Dynamically " draft to appear in Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics, 3(4).
pdf, 148KB
 
Cann, R., Kempson, Ruth and Gregoromichelaki, Eleni (2009) Semantics: An Introduction to Meaning in Language. Cambridge University Press.
 
Kempson, R, Gregoromichelaki, E, Meyer-Viol, W, Purver, M, White, G, Cann, R (to appear) "Natural-language syntax as procedures for interpretation: the dynamics of ellipsis construal" draft to appear in Proceedings of PRELUDE meetings.
 
 
Ruth Kempson and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (2009) "The Person Case Constraint as a Treegrowth Property"
pdf, 288KB 
 
Kempson, R., Gregoromichelaki, E. and Sato, Yo (2009) Incrementality, speaker/hearer switching and the disambiguation challenge.  In: Proceedings of European Association of Computational Linguistics proceedings.
pdf, 88KB
 
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Yo Sato, Ruth Kempson, Andrew Gargett, Christine Howes (2009) "Dialogue Modelling and the Remit of Core Grammar" In: Proceedings of IWCS 2009.
pdf, 157KB
 
Kempson, R. and Kurosawa, A. 2009 At the syntax-pragmatics interface: Japanese relative clause construal. Chapter 2 of H. Hoshi ed. The Dynamics and Mechanism of Language: Perspectives from Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience. pp 47-84 Kuroshio Press.: Tokyo. (pre-print)
pdf, 570KB
 
Kempson, R. and Kiaer, J. 2009 Japanese scrambling: the dynamics of on-line processing. Chapter 1 of Hoshi. H (ed.) . The Dynamics and Mechanism of Language: Perspectives from Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience/ pp. 5-45. Kuroshio Press: Tokyo. (pre-print)
pdf, 455KB
 
Kempson, R., Kiaer, J. and Cann, R. (2009) "Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth" ). In  Shaer, Cook, Frey, Maienborn (eds) Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic Semantics and Pragmatic Perspectives. pp. 141--172. Routledge, New York. (pre-print)
pdf, 348KB
 
 

2008

Robin Cooper and Ruth Kempson (eds) (2008) Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution
College Publications
available from amazon  
 
Kempson, R., Gargett, A., Gregoromichelaki, E., Howes,C., Sato, Y. "Towards a unified account of ellipsis: syntax as time-linear building of semantic representations." In: ESSLLI 2008 workshop proceedings. Hamburg.
 
Marten, L. Kempson, R. and Bouzouita, M.  (2008) Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance In C. de Cat and K Demoth (eds.) The Bantu-Romance Connection. John Benjamins.
pdf, 254KB
 
Kempson, R.   The (re-)emergence of representationalism in semantics. To appear in Maienborn, von Heusinger and Portner (eds.) Handbook of Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning.
pdf, 250KB
 
Gargett, A., Gregoromichelaki, E., Howes, C. and Sato, Y. (2008) Dialogue-Grammar Correspondence in Dynamic Syntax. In LonDial 2008 Proceedings.
pdf, 96KB
 
Kempson, R. Cann, R. and Marten, L. (forthcoming) Treegrowth Dynamics.  In C. Cristi (ed.) (title tba).
pdf, 280KB

2007

Kempson, R, Gargett, A. and Gregoromichelaki, E. (2007). Clarification Requests: An Incremental Account. In: Decalog 2007 Proceedings.
pdf, 492KB
 
Cann, R., Kempson, R. and Purver, M. (2007), "Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis", In: Research in Language and Computation, Vol.5 (near final draft)
pdf, 290KB 
 
Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann (2007) "Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change" published in: Joe Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith (2007) Historical linguistics 2005: selected papers from the 17th International Congress of Historical LInguistics. John Benjamins.
pdf, 270KB
 

2006

Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann, and Matthew Purver (2006)
[working draft] "Talking and Listening: Dialogue and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface"
pdf, 312KB
 
Nhlanhla Thwala, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten (2006) [submitted]
"Siswati Clefts: The Meeting Ground of Context and Contrast"
pdf, 253KB
 
Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann and Matthew Purver. Grammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue. In the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives, Tübingen, Germany, February 2006.
pdf, 34KB
 
Matthew Purver, Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson. Grammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge. Research on Language and Computation 4(2-3), pages 289-326, October 2006.
pdf, 361KB

2005

The Dynamics of Language: An Introduction
Ronnie Cann,
University of Edinburgh
Ruth Kempson,
King's College London
Lutz Marten,
School of Oriental and
African Studies
(originally published by Elsevier: now available from Emerald Group Publishing Limited)

2004

Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson (2004)
ESSLLI Teaching Materials (extracts from Kempson et al. 2005).
pdf, 1135KB
 
Matthew Purver and Ruth Kempson (2004) "Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue" in Anja Belz, Roger Evans, Paul Piwek (eds.), Natural Language Generation: Third International Conference, INLG04, BrockenHurst UK, Proceedings, Springer, ISBN 3-540-22340-1
abstract   
pdf, 118KB
 
Matthew Purver and Ruth Kempson (2004) "Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances" in Jonathan Ginzburg and Enric Vallduví (eds.), Catalog '04: Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Barcelona: pp 85-92 Barcelona, ISBN 84-609-2205-7
pdf, 158KB
 
Matthew Purver and Ruth Kempson (2004) "Incremental Parsing, or Incremental Grammar?" in Frank Keller, Stephen Clark, Matthew Crocker and Mark Steedman (eds.), Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together, Barcelona: pp 74-81, ACL
pdf, 139KB
 
Ruth Kempson, Ronnie Cann and Jieun Kiaer (2004) "Topic, Focus and the Structural Dynamics of Language"
pdf, 189KB

2003

Ruth Kempson (2003)
"Nonrestrictive Relatives and Growth of Logical Form" in Gina Garding and Mimu Tsujimura (eds.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22 (WCCFL): pp 301-314, Cascadilla Press, ISBN 1-57473-063-0
pdf, 108KB
 
Ruth Kempson (2003)
"Japanese Scrambling as Growth of Semantic Representation"
pdf, 523KB
 
Masayuki Otsuka and Matthew Purver (2003)
Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing Proceedings of the 6th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium: pp 93-100 Edinburgh
pdf, 147KB 
 
Matthew Purver and Masayuki Otsuka (2003)
Incremental Generation by Incremental Parsing: Tactical Generation in Dynamic Syntax Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation: pp 79-86 Budapest
pdf, 89KB
 
Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Masayuki Otsuka (2003)
"Growth of Logical Form: The Dynamics of Syntax" in Jaroslav Peregrin (ed.), Meaning: The Dynamic Turn: pp 121-148, Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-044187-4
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2002

Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, and Masayuki Otsuka (2002)
"On Left and Right Dislocation: A Dynamic Perspective".
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Ruth Kempson and Masayuki Otsuka (2002)
"Dialogue as Collaborative Tree Growth".
pdf, 129KB
 

2001

Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay (2001)
"Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding" ,
Blackwell
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Malcolm Edwards, Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (2001)
"Resumptive pronouns in English and Arabic"
 
Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, Masayuki Otsuka and David Swinburne (2001)
"On What goes Left and What goes Right"
pdf, 387KB
 
Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (2001)
"The Dynamics of Syntax: Anaphora, Relative Pronouns and Crossover"
 
Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (2001)
"Relative clauses, left-periphery effects, and the dynamics of language processing"
pdf, 268KB

2000

Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (2000)
"The Dynamics of WH questions"
 
Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay (2000)
"Syntactic Computation as Labelled Deduction: WH a case study"
in R. Borsley and I. Roberts (eds.),
Syntactic Categories , Academic Press
pdf, 168KB 
 
Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (1999)
"Topic and Focus: The Dynamics of Tree Growth"
in Gosse Bouma, Erhard Hinrichs, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, and Richard Oehrle (eds.), Constraints and Resources in Natural Language Syntax and Semantics : pp 175-195,  CSLI
 
Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay (1999)
"VP ellipsis: towards a dynamic structural account"
in Lappin, S. & Benmamoun, E. (eds.), Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping, OUP
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1998

Wilfried Meyer-Viol (1998)
"Sequential construction of logical forms"
In Lecomte, A. (ed.) Proceedings of LACL Grenoble 1998.
Also in: Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 2014,
Also in: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, ed. Michael Moortgat
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Ruth Kempson and Dov Gabbay (1998)
"Crossover : a unified view"
in Nigel Fabb, Caroline Heycock, Robert D. Borsley, Kerstin Hoge (eds.),  Journal of Linguistics, Vol 34 : pp 73-124 , CUP / Cambridge Journals Online

1997

Marcelo Finger, Rodger Kibble, Ruth Kempson and Dov Gabbay (1997)
"Parsing Natural Language using LDS: A Prototype"
In: Journal of the IGPL: 5(5), pp 647-671, OUP
pdf, 295KB 
 
Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay (1997)
"Language Understanding: A Procedural Perspective"
in C. Retore (ed.), Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, First International Conference, LACL 1996, Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 1328: pp 228-247, Springer Verlag.
pdf, 273KB
 
Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Rodger Kibble, Ruth Kempson and Dov Gabbay (1997)
"Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account"
in H. Bunt and R. Muskens (eds.), Computing Meaning Vol 1: Current Issues in Computational Semantics, (Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy Vol 73) , Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht and Boston.
pdf, 243KB
 
Rodger Kibble (1997)
"Implementing LDS-NL: Strategies for Pronoun and Wh-Gap Resolution"
in D. Swinburne and S. Ploch (eds.), SOAS Working papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 7
pdf, 251KB
 
 Wilfried Meyer-Viol (1997)
"Parsing as Tree Construction" in P. Dekker et al. (eds.),
Proceedings of the Eleventh Amsterdam Semantics Colloquium
 
 Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Dov Gabbay (1997)
"On representationalism in semantics: a dynamic account of WH"
in P. Dekker et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Amsterdam Colloquium: pp 193-198
 
Rodger Kibble, Wilfried Meyer-Viol and Lutz Marten (1997)
"Incremental Interpretation using a tree description language"
in P. Dekker et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

pre-1997

Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Ruth Kempson and Dov Gabbay (1996)
"Language processing in LDS-NL"
in Abrusci and Casadio (eds.), Proofs and Linguistic Categories. Proceedings 1996 Roma Workshop: pp 81-106
 
Ruth Kempson (1995)
"Ellipsis as Labelled Deduction"
in R. Kempson (ed.) Language and Deduction, guest issue of Bulletin of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics, Vol 3 Numbers 2,3: 489--525. London and Saarbrücken. 
 
Ruth Kempson (1995)
"Semantics, Pragmatics and Natural Language Interpretation"
in S. Lappin (ed.), Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory: pp 561-98 , Blackwell
 
Patrick Blackburn and Wilfried Meyer-Viol (1994)
"Linguistics, Logic and Finite Trees" Bulletin of the IGPL : 2, pp 3-31
pdf, 316KB
 
Dov Gabbay, Ruth Kempson, and J.V. Pitt (1994)
"Labelled abduction and relevance reasoning" in F. Demolombe and Imielinksi (eds.), Nonstandard queries and nonstandard answers : pp 155-86 , OUP
 
Ruth Kempson (1993)
"Input systems, anaphora, ellipsis and operator binding" in E. Reuland and Abraham (eds.), Knowledge and Language Vol. II: Lexical and Conceptual Structure : pp 51-78 , Kluwer Academic Publishers.
 
 
Dov Gabbay and Ruth Kempson (1992)
"Natural-Language content: a proof-theoretic perspective" in M. Stokhof & P. Dekker (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Semantics Colloquium. Amsterdam