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Handbook of Logic and Language, Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds.

Handbook of Logic and Language, Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds. 264 BOOK REVIEW ity, quantifier scope, Discourse Representation Theory, Situation Theory and the categorial type approach. The second chapter, “Categorial Type Logics” by Michael Moortgat, covers the main devel- opments and innovations in Categorial Grammar. This chapter was long awaited by the Categorial Grammar Community. For the first time, logicians as well as linguists working in this framework have a complete and illuminating “guidebook” for the field. However, even if this is a first acquaintance of a reader with type logical grammar, she can certainly find all necessary material for understanding the basics and the beauty of the approach. The central objective of the type logical perspective is to develop a uniform deductive perspective on composition and meaning. Formal grammar is presented as logic and categorial parsing as a logical deduction with resource sensitive logical inferences. Moortgat discusses various aspects of the logical technique underlying the categorial grammars as well as the problem of syntax-semantics interface within the framework. Its essence is that semantic interpretation can be read off directly from the proof which establishes the well-formedness of an expression. This is a deductive approach in contrast to the Montagovian rule to rule philosophy discussed in Chapter 1. “The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Journal of Logic, Language and Information" Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Philosophy; Logic; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Semantics
ISSN
0925-8531
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1572-9583
DOI
10.1023/A:1008379422983
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264 BOOK REVIEW ity, quantifier scope, Discourse Representation Theory, Situation Theory and the categorial type approach. The second chapter, “Categorial Type Logics” by Michael Moortgat, covers the main devel- opments and innovations in Categorial Grammar. This chapter was long awaited by the Categorial Grammar Community. For the first time, logicians as well as linguists working in this framework have a complete and illuminating “guidebook” for the field. However, even if this is a first acquaintance of a reader with type logical grammar, she can certainly find all necessary material for understanding the basics and the beauty of the approach. The central objective of the type logical perspective is to develop a uniform deductive perspective on composition and meaning. Formal grammar is presented as logic and categorial parsing as a logical deduction with resource sensitive logical inferences. Moortgat discusses various aspects of the logical technique underlying the categorial grammars as well as the problem of syntax-semantics interface within the framework. Its essence is that semantic interpretation can be read off directly from the proof which establishes the well-formedness of an expression. This is a deductive approach in contrast to the Montagovian rule to rule philosophy discussed in Chapter 1. “The

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Published: Oct 5, 2004

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