Ling 795D: Categorial Grammar (WI 05)

Here is a copy of the current syllabus (may be updated from time to time).

The handout that was incomplete when I handed it out in class, "A (Brief) introduction to cateogrial grammars".

The following items are available here (read or download):

1. Bernardi, Raeffaella (2004) Reasoning with Polarity in Categorial Type Logic, U. Utrecht Dissertation Chapters 1,2 (.pdf)
2. Carpenter, Bob. 1997 Type-Logical Semantics(ps format, rotated) (MIT Press).
3. Areces, Carlos, and Rafaella Bernardi. "Analyzing the Core of Categorial Grammar" (pdf format). To appear/appeared in JOLLI.
4. Bernardi, R. "Types for linguistic typologies. A cade study: Polarity Items" (.ps). in Papers from the 2001 Amsterdam Rountable.
5. Morrill, Glyn "Towards Generalised Discontinuity" in Proceedings of the 2002 Formal Grammar Conference
6. Morrill, Glyn "Islands, Coordination and Parasitic Gaps" in New Perspectives in Logic and Formal Linguistics (5th Roma Workship), 2002.
7. Lambek, Joachim "Type Grammars as Pregroups"(pdf) in Grammars 4, 2001.
8. Moortgat, Michel "Categorial Type Logics" in Handbook of Logic and Linguistics: in post-script (.ps) format, or in hyper-ref .dvi format. That is, the .dvi version has hyperlinks you can click on to take you to other parts of the paper: depending on your .dvi viewer, these links may simply be underlined (a bit hard to see), or may appear in blue.
9. Oehrle, Dick. `Multi-Modal Type-Logical Grammar' Since the pages in this documnet are quite short, you may want to print out instead a four-on-one version.

10. Dowty, David. (1994) "The Role of Negative Polarity and Concord Marking in Natural Language Reasoning" (.pdf). (The postscript version.) Proceedings of the 4th SALT conference (conference on Semantics And Linguistic Theory).
11. Dowty, David (1996) [1992] "Toward a Minimalist Theory of Syntactic Structure" (postscript version only). in Bunt, H., et al Discontinuous Constituency (presented at conference in 1992, proceedings finally published 1996).

12. Jaeger, Gerhard Anaphora and Type-Logical Grammar (.ps)
13. Jacobson, Pauline (1999) "Towards a Variable-Free Semantics" (.ps) Linguistics and Philosophy v. 24, 117-184. Note: this is a prepublication version; you can obtain a nicely-formatted .pdf version by going to the main library's on-line copy of this journal.

    Other relevant papers by Jacobson you may want to read: where published version of these are also available on-line, I give only the references here:

14. Jacobson, Pauline, (2000) "Paycheck pronouns, Bach-Peters sentences, and variable-free semantics". Natural Language Semantics 8, 77-155.
15. Jacobson, Pauline (1996) "The Locality of Interpretation: The Case of Binding and Coordination" (.pdf) SALT 6, 111-135.

    These papers are, I think, only available on Jacobson's web site, http://www.cog.brown.edu/People/jacobson/publications.htm

16. "Direct Compositionality and Variable-Free Semantics: the Case of Binding into Heads"
17. "Antecedent-Contained Deletion and Pied-Piping: Evidence for a Variable-Free Semantics".