Anaphora and Type Logical Grammar

Type Logical Grammar is a framework that emerged from the synthesis of two traditions: Categorial Grammar from formal linguistics and substructural logics from logic. Grammatical composition is conceived as resource conscious logical deduction. Such a gra

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TRENDS IN LOGIC Studia Logica Library

VOLUME 24 Managing Editor Ryszard Wójcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Editors Vincent F. Hendricks, Department of Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark Daniele Mundici, Department of Mathematics “Ulisse Dini”, University of Florence, Italy Ewa Or á owska, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland Krister Segerberg, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden Heinrich Wansing, Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

SCOPE OF THE SERIES

Trends in Logic is a bookseries covering essentially the same area as the journal Studia Logica – that is, contemporary formal logic and its applications and relations to other disciplines. These include artificial intelligence, informatics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language. However, this list is not exhaustive, moreover, the range of applications, comparisons and sources of inspiration is open and evolves over time.

Volume Editor Heinrich Wansing

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

ANAPHORA AND TYPE LOGICAL GRAMMAR by

GERHARD JÄGER University of Bielefeld, Germany

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Contents

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments

vii ix xiii

1. TYPE LOGICAL GRAMMAR: THE FRAMEWORK

1

1

Basic Categorial Grammar

1

2

Combinators and Type Logical Grammar

17

3

Historical and Bibliographical Remarks

65

2. THE PROBLEM OF ANAPHORA

69

1

Anaphora and Semantic Resource Sensitivity

69

2

Variables in TLG

72

3

Previous Categorial Approaches to Anaphora

76

4

Summary

116

3. LAMBEK CALCULUS WITH LIMITED CONTRACTION

119

1

The Agenda

119

2

Contraction?

120

3

The Logic LLC

121

4

Relation to Jacobson’s System

153

4. PRONOUNS AND QUANTIFICATION

157

1

Basic Cases

157

2

Binding by wh -operators

158

3

Binding by Quantifiers

159

4

Weak Crossover

169

5

Precedence Versus c-command

169

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vi

ANAPHORA AND TYPE LOGICAL GRAMMAR

6

Backward Binding and Reconstruction

174

5. VERB PHRASE ELLIPSIS 1 Introduction 2 VPE: The Basic Idea 3 Interaction with Pronominal Anaphora 4 Interaction of VPE and Quantification 5 VPE and Polymorphis