Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures 32

Oehrle, Richard T. & E. Bach & Deirdre Wheeler

ISBN 10: 1556080301 / ISBN 13: 9781556080302

Published by Springer, 1988

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Laminate paper boards, slightly bumped at ends of spine, minute rubbing; Pages lightly age-toned, offsetting on endpapers, no ownership marks; Binding tight. ; Studies In Linguistics And Philosophy, 32; 6.5 x 9.25"; 524 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures 32
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556080301
• ISBN 13: 9781556080302
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Synopsis

For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 through June 2, 1985. We wish to record our gratitude to the participants in that conference, as well as to the National Science Foundation (Grant No. BNS-8418916) and the University of Arizona SBS Research Institute for their financial support. The advice we received from Susan Steele on organizational matters proved invaluable and had many felicitous consequences for the success of the con- ference. We also would like to thank the staff of the Departments of Linguistics of the University of Arizona and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for their help, as weIl as a number of individuals, including Lin Hall, Kathy Todd, and Jiazhen Hu, Sandra Fulmer, Maria Sandoval, Natsuko Tsujimura, Stuart Davis, Mark Lewis, Robin Schafer, Shi Zhang, Olivia Oehrle-Steele, and Paul Saka. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Martin Scrivener, our editor, for his patience and his encouragement. Vll INTRODUCTION The term 'categorial grammar' was introduced by Bar-Rillel (1964, page 99) as a handy way of grouping together some of his own earlier work (1953) and the work of the Polish logicians and philosophers Lesniewski (1929) and Ajdukiewicz (1935), in contrast to approaches to linguistic analysis based on phrase structure grammars.