</term>
of
<term>
natural language
</term>
associate
#24750In addition, the role of modal languages (and in particular, what we have called layered modal languages) as constraint formalisms for linguistic theorising is discussed in some detail. Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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.
<term>
Semantic theories
</term>
of
<term>
natural language
</term>
associate
<term>
meanings
</term>
with
#24753Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
other,6-1-E93-1013,ak
<term>
natural language
</term>
associate
<term>
meanings
</term>
with
<term>
utterances
</term>
by providing
#24756Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
other,8-1-E93-1013,ak
associate
<term>
meanings
</term>
with
<term>
utterances
</term>
by providing
<term>
meanings
</term>
#24758Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
other,11-1-E93-1013,ak
<term>
utterances
</term>
by providing
<term>
meanings
</term>
for
<term>
lexical items
</term>
and
#24761Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
other,13-1-E93-1013,ak
providing
<term>
meanings
</term>
for
<term>
lexical items
</term>
and
<term>
rules
</term>
for determining
#24763Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
tech,16-1-E93-1013,ak
</term>
for
<term>
lexical items
</term>
and
<term>
rules
</term>
for determining the
<term>
meaning
#24766Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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<term>
rules
</term>
for determining the
<term>
meaning
</term>
of larger units given the
<term>
meanings
#24770Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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meaning
</term>
of larger units given the
<term>
meanings
</term>
of their parts . Traditionally ,
#24776Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
tech,6-2-E93-1013,ak
Traditionally , meanings are combined via
<term>
function composition
</term>
, which works well when
<term>
constituent
#24787Traditionally, meanings are combined via function composition, which works well when constituent structure trees are used to guide semantic composition.
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composition
</term>
, which works well when
<term>
constituent structure trees
</term>
are used to guide
<term>
semantic composition
#24794Traditionally, meanings are combined via function composition, which works well when constituent structure trees are used to guide semantic composition.
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structure trees
</term>
are used to guide
<term>
semantic composition
</term>
. More recently , the
<term>
functional
#24801Traditionally, meanings are combined via function composition, which works well when constituent structure trees are used to guide semantic composition.
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composition
</term>
. More recently , the
<term>
functional structure
</term>
of
<term>
LFG
</term>
has been used to
#24808More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
other,7-3-E93-1013,ak
<term>
functional structure
</term>
of
<term>
LFG
</term>
has been used to provide the
<term>
#24811More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
other,14-3-E93-1013,ak
</term>
has been used to provide the
<term>
syntactic information
</term>
necessary for constraining
<term>
derivations
#24818More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
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</term>
necessary for constraining
<term>
derivations
</term>
of
<term>
meaning
</term>
in a cross-linguistically
#24823More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
other,21-3-E93-1013,ak
constraining
<term>
derivations
</term>
of
<term>
meaning
</term>
in a cross-linguistically uniform
#24825More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
other,15-4-E93-1013,ak
approach with the combination of
<term>
meanings
</term>
by
<term>
function composition
</term>
#24847It has been difficult, however, to reconcile this approach with the combination of meanings by function composition.
tech,17-4-E93-1013,ak
combination of
<term>
meanings
</term>
by
<term>
function composition
</term>
. In contrast to compositional approaches
#24849It has been difficult, however, to reconcile this approach with the combination of meanings by function composition.
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deductive approach to assembling
<term>
meanings
</term>
, based on
<term>
reasoning with constraints
#24865In contrast to compositional approaches, we present a deductive approach to assembling meanings , based on reasoning with constraints, which meshes well with the unordered nature of information in the functional structure.