Montague and categorial grammar

Dynamic Montague Grammar ∗

Compositionality in Montague Grammar

Though not the first to introduce the notion, Montague has been a key figure in promoting the principle of compositionality. Montague himself proposed both an abstract program and a grammar for a fragment of English. In his fragment he makes particular choices for the manipulation of meanings that have later been modified. This work has sparked off numerous important developments. For example, ...

Incremental Montague Grammar

Categorial Grammar

The paper is a review article comparing a number of approaches to natural language syntax and semantics that have been developed using categorial frameworks. It distinguishes two related but distinct varieties of categorial theory, one related to Natural Deduction systems and the axiomatic calculi of Lambek, and another which involves more specialized combinatory operations. Comments University...

Methodology and Verifiability in Montague Grammar

Nethodological problems in Men[ague Grammar are discussed. Our observations show that a model-theoretic approach to natural language semantics is inadequate with respect to i t s v e r i f i a b i l i t y from logical point of view. But, the formal a t t i tudes seem to be of use for the development in computational