Semantic Aspects of Minimalist Grammars

Minimalist grammars are a rich lexicalized syntactic formalism which inherits the depth and wide covering of the generative tradition. Nevertheless up to now there is no straightforward way to extract the predicative structure of a sentence from syntactic analyses and from the predicative structure of the lexical items. In this paper we try to apply to this richer syntactic model the traditional correspondence between categorial grammars and Montague semantics. A similar correspondence between syntax and semantics is obtained via a description of minimalist grammars as a deductive system.