Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Commands as binary relations 1
6. Generalized minimalist grammars 19
7. An infinite hierachy of midly context-sensitive families of languages 53
8. Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics 73
9. Logical splicing in natural languages 131
10. X-families 145
11. Overparsing 165
12. Computational complexity in language models 183
13. Grammar efficiency and the historical development of word order in French 193
14. Author Index 207
15. Subject Index 211