Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures [Paperback]

Categorial Grammars as Theories of Language.- The Lambek Calculus.- Generative Power of Categorial Grammars.- Semantic Categories and the Development of Categorial Grammars.- Aspects of a Categorial Theory of Binding.- Type Raising, Functional Composition, and Non-Constituent Conjunction.- Implications of Process-Morphology for Categorial Grammar.- Phrasal Verbs and the Categories of Postponement.- Natural Language Motivations for Extending Categorial Grammar.- Categorial and Categorical Grammars.- Mixed Composition and Discontinuous Dependencies.- Multi-Dimensional Compositional Functions as a Basis for Grammatical Analysis.- Categorial Grammar and Phrase Structure Grammar: An Excursion on the Syntax-Semantics Frontier.- Combinators and Grammars.- A Typology of Functors and Categories.- Consequences of Some Categorially-Motivated Phonological Assumptions.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Categories and Functors.Springer Book Archives