The Phenogrammar of Coordination
C. Brooke Worth · 2014
Linear Categorial Grammar (LinCG) is a sign-based, Curryesque, relational, logical categorial grammar (CG) whose central architecture is based on linear logic.Curryesque grammars separate the abstract combinatorics (tectogrammar) of linguistic expressions from their concrete, audible representations (phenogrammar).Most of these grammars encode linear order in string-based lambda terms, in which there is no obvious way to distinguish right from left.Without some notion of directionality, grammars are unable to differentiate, say, subject and object for purposes of building functorial coordinate structures.We introduce the notion of a phenominator as a way to encode the term structure of a functor separately from its "string support".This technology is then employed to analyze a range of coordination phenomena typically left unaddressed by Linear Logic-based Curryesque frameworks.