title: Mechanisms for interaction: Syntax as procedures for online interactive meaning building.
abstract: We argue that to reflect participant interactivity in conversational dialogue, the Christiansen & Chater (C&C) perspective needs a formal grammar framework capturing word-by-word incrementality, as in Dynamic Syntax, in which syntax is the incremental building of semantic representations reflecting real-time parsing dynamics. We demonstrate that, with such formulation, syntactic, semantic, and morpho-syntactic dependencies are all analysable as grounded in their potential for interaction.
authors: Philosophy Department, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/associates/emeritus/kempson/index.aspx
authors: Ruth
authors: R
authors: Kempson
authors: Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, 41124 Gothenburg, Swedenstergios. chatzikyriakidis@gu.se http://www.stergioschatzikyriakidis.com/contact.html
authors: Stergios
authors: S
authors: Chatzikyriakidis
authors: Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, Scotland. r.cann@ed.ac.uk http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~ronnie/
authors: Ronnie
authors: R
authors: Cann
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D012660:Semantics