@conference{Kempson.Hough.Howes.etal_IWCS_2019, author = "Ruth Kempson and Julian Hough and Christine Howes and Matthew Purver and Patrick G. T. Healey and Arash Eshghi and Eleni Gregoromichelaki", abstract = "This paper brings together Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space semantics with current work in cognitive neuroscience and evolution to argue that natural language (NL) models need to be defined in partial and shifting terms. ", booktitle = "Vector Semantics for Dialogue and Discourse workshop at IWCS 2019", title = "{W}hy natural language models must be partial and shifting: a {D}ynamic {S}yntax with {V}ector {S}pace {S}emantics perspective", url = "http://www.christinehowes.com/papers/kempson.etal_IWCS_19.pdf", year = "2019", }