From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5132 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Seely Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: categories and linguistic? Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:24:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: Robert Seely NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252717708 9650 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 01:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:08:28 +0000 (UTC) To: John Baez , categories Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Sep 12 03:08:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MmH6D-0004jz-HQ for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:08:21 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MmGg5-0003Kx-CE for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:41:21 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5132 Archived-At: Looking at Jim's work is definitely the basis for this subject - an easy intro is the (unofficial Festschrift) volume Language and Grammar: Studies in Mathematical Linguistics and Natural Language (Claudia Casadio, Philip J. Scott, and Robert A.G. Seely, editors) (CSLI 2005) < http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575864886.shtml > The introduction is available online: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/lambek/CSS-IntroLambekProg.pdf There are lots of references which can start you off ... -= rags =- On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, John Baez wrote: > Pierre Cardscia wrote: > > it seemed, but I'm not sure, that the Montreal school worked on that subject >> in the past, but this information is unconfirmed ... >> > > Joachim (= Jim) Lambek, at McGill University, has studied linguistics using > category theory. You could start here: > > http://www.google.com/search?&q=lambek+linguistics > > http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gjaeger/lehre/cg_ss00/lambek/lambek58.html > > Best, > jb > -- [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]