Dynamic Categorial Grammar
Richard T. Oehrle · Formal Grammar · 1992
Abstract From the point of view adopted here, categorial grammar is a general framework for linguistic analysis which is based on the idea that the properties of a complex linguistic expression can be represented as the application of a function to appropriate arguments - namely, the properties of the expression’s component parts. Abstractly, then, categorial grammar has affinities with theories of functionality such as the A-calculus, with universal algebra, and with logic. The linguistic interest of this point of view derives from the fact that it provides an elegant framework in which to investigate what might be called the problem of generalized compositionality: the relation between the properties of a complex expression in a number of dimensions - such as syntax, interpretation, phonology - to the corresponding properties of the expression’s component parts and its mode of composition.