Compositional Semantics
by Gary Hardegree
Publisher: UMass Amherst 2009
Number of pages: 350
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Contents: Basic Categorial Syntax; Shortcomings of Standard Categorial Syntax; Expanded Categorial Syntax; Examples of Expanded Categorial Syntax; Categorial Logic; Basic Categorial Semantics; Lambda-Abstraction; Expanded Categorial Semantics; Categorial Logic - Semantics; Scope and Ambiguity; Applications.
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