English as a Formal Language

Montague, Richard

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“…If a property can always be retrieved from a degree, all the apparently non-degree modifiers in (27) and (28) could be given denotations on which they are actually predicates of properties retrieved from degrees. This would mirror the classical Montagovian analysis of adverbials as predicate modifiers (Montague 1970). The denotations of adjectival nominalizations and measure phrases could be distinguished essentially by type or sort, as already suggested.…”

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Degrees as kinds

Anderson

Morzycki

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper argues that a variety of constructions in a variety of languages suggest a deep connection between kinds, manners, and degrees. We articulate a way of thinking about degrees on which this connection is less surprising, rooted in the idea that degrees are kinds of Davidsonian states. This enables us to provide a cross-categorial compositional semantics for a class of expressions that can serve as anaphors to kinds, manners, and degrees, or introduce clauses that further characterize them. A consequence of this is that equatives emerge as a special case of a more general cross-categorial phenomenon. The analysis is undergirded by independently motivated assumptions about free relatives and type shifting. It provides evidence for a view of degrees on which they are significantly more ontologically complex than is typically thought.

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Degrees as kinds

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2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…His 'Universal Grammar' (Montague, 1970b) begins with the sentence, "There is in my opinion no important theoretical difference between natural languages and the artificial languages of logicians; indeed I consider it possible to comprehend the syntax and semantics of both kinds of languages with a single natural and mathematically precise theory" (p. 222). And while he was sympathetic to Chomsky's goals, he was not impressed with the results 'emanating from MIT,' remarking, "I fail to see any great interest in syntax except as a preliminary to semantics" (Montague, 1970b, p. 223).…”

Section: Montague Grammar In Historical Contextmentioning

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“…'Montague grammar' has often meant what Montague did in the fragment in PTQ and the extensions of PTQ by linguists and philosophers in the 1970s and 1980s with greater or lesser innovations. But it is the broader algebraic framework of 'UG' ('Universal Grammar, ' Montague, 1970b) that constitutes Montague's theory of grammar. This section therefore begins with the basic principles laid out in UG, concentrating on the Principle of Compositionality, then continues with modeltheoretic interpretation, type theory, and the 'method of fragments,' including some of the key features of the fragment in PTQ.…”

Section: The Theory and The Substance Of Montague Grammar: Central Prmentioning

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“…Montague's 'Universal Grammar' (Montague, 1970b) contains the most general statement of Montague's formal framework for the description of language. The central idea is that a grammar should be able to be cast in the following form: the syntax is an algebra, the semantics is an algebra, and there is a homomorphism mapping elements of the syntactic algebra onto elements of the semantic algebra.…”

Section: Universal Grammar: Syntax and Semantics As Algebras Composimentioning

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Montague Grammar

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2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Montague grammar is a theory of semantics and of its relation to syntax, developed by the logician Richard Montague and subsequently extended by linguists, philosophers, and logicians. Montague grammar had its roots in logic and the philosophy of language; it became influential in linguistics, and subsequently evolved into contemporary formal semantics. Enduring features of the theory have been a truth-conditional theory of meaning, a model-theoretic conception of semantics, and the methodological centrality of the Principle of Compositionality: "The meaning of a whole is a function of the meanings of its parts and their mode of syntactic combination."

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“…The same 'trick' can be used with the 26 The first widely accepted model is that of Richard Montague's 'The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English' Montague (1973). Note that Montague also explored the possibility of providing a model-theoretic semantics of natural language directly, cf., his Montague (1970a). 27 Cf., de Swart, (1998). translation of natural language into some formal language.…”

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Hand or Hammer? On Formal and Natural Languages in Semantics

Stokhof

2007

J Indian Philos

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English as a Formal Language

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Degrees as kinds

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