Language in action : categories, lambdas, and dynamic logic /
This monograph began life as a series of papers documenting five years of research into the logical foundations of Categorial Grammar, a grammatical paradigm which has close analogies with Lambda Calculus and Type Theory. The technical theory presented here stems from the interface between Logic and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
North-Holland ; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1991.
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| Series: | Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics ;
v. 130. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This monograph began life as a series of papers documenting five years of research into the logical foundations of Categorial Grammar, a grammatical paradigm which has close analogies with Lambda Calculus and Type Theory. The technical theory presented here stems from the interface between Logic and Linguistics and, in particular, the theory of generalized quantification. A categorical framework with lambda calculus-oriented semantics is a convenient vehicle for generalizing semantic insights (obtained in various corners of natural language) into one coherent theory. The book aims to demonstrate to fellow logicians that the resulting applied lambda calculus has intrinsic logical interest. In the final analysis, the idea is not just to `break the syntactic code' of natural languages but to understand the cognitive functioning of the human mind. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 349 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-344) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780080934228 0080934226 1282258222 9781282258228 9786612258220 6612258225 |