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From: Michael Fourman <Michael.Fourman@ed.ac.uk>
To: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: categories and linguistic?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:38:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MmGnk-0003qf-MB@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

You may also want to look at

groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccg/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_categorial_grammar

as well as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorial_grammar
which includes some historical notes.

On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:25, 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
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11 22:38 Michael Fourman [this message]
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2009-09-13 21:51 Vaughan Pratt
2009-09-12  1:33 Charles Wells
2009-09-11 17:45 soloviev
2009-09-11 16:48 Valeria de Paiva
2009-09-11 16:24 Robert Seely

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