Categorial Grammar: Logical Syntax, Semantics, and Processing - Softcover

Morrill, Glyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199589860 ISBN 13: 9780199589869

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010

Synopsis

This book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to categorial grammar, a type of formal grammar which analyzes expressions as functions or according to a function-argument relationship. The book's focus is on linguistic, computational, and psycholinguistic aspects of logical categorial grammar, i.e. enriched Lambek Calculus.

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About the Author

Glyn Morrill teaches in the Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalyunya. After receiving his degree in Computer Science from Cambridge (1984), he completed an MSc and PhD in Cognitive Science at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, working on formal and computational grammar, and in particular categorial grammar. He has worked as a researcher at Edinburgh, Utrecht/Amsterdam and since 1991 has taught at the Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in the areas of logic, theory of computation, linguistics, and computational linguistics. He is the author of Type Logical Grammar: Categorial Logic of Signs (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994), and L`ogica de primer ordre (Edicions UPC, 2001).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199589860
• ISBN 13: 9780199589869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254