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Categorial grammar

Overview

family of formalisms in natural language syntax motivated by the principle of compositionality and organized according to the view that syntactic constituents should generally combine as functions or according to a function-argument relationship

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Categorial grammar

• Richard Montague
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Edmund Husserl
• Johan van Benthem (logician)

Related ideas

• Grammatical tense
• Formal grammar
• Logical conjunction
• Function (mathematics)
• Mathematical logic
• Natural language
• Linguistics
• Rule of inference
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Emil Leon Post
• Stanisław Leśniewski
• Logic
• Linear logic
• Rudolf Carnap
• Category theory
• Alfred Tarski
• Richard Montague
• Backus–Naur form
• Context-free grammar
• Montague grammar
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
• Edmund Husserl
• Principle of compositionality

Place in the tradition

Part of Noncommutative logic.

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