Categorial Grammar: Logical Syntax, Semantics, and - download pdf or read online
By Glyn V. Morrill
ISBN-10: 0199589852
ISBN-13: 9780199589852
ISBN-10: 0199589860
ISBN-13: 9780199589869
This ebook presents a state of the art advent to categorial grammar, one of those formal grammar which analyzes expressions as features or based on a function-argument courting. The book's concentration is on linguistic, computational, and psycholinguistic facets of logical categorial grammar, i.e. enriched Lambek Calculus. Glyn Morrill opens with the historical past and notation of Lambek Calculus and its program to syntax, semantics, and processing. Successive chapters expand the grammar to a few major syntactic and semantic houses of average language. the ultimate half applies Morrill's account to numerous present matters in processing and parsing, thought of from either a mental and a computational standpoint. The ebook bargains a rigorous and considerate examine of 1 of the most strains of analysis within the formal and mathematical conception of grammar, and should be compatible for college kids of linguistics and cognitive technological know-how from complicated undergraduate point upwards.