From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5137 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Fourman Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: categories and linguistic? Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:38:01 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Fourman NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1075.2) Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed;delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252718033 10226 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 01:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:13:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sat Sep 12 03:13:46 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 1MmHBR-0005rD-In for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MmGnk-0003qf-MB for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:49:16 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5137 Archived-At: 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 > Professor Michael Fourman FBCS CITP Informatics Forum 10 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mfourman/ For diary appointments contact : mdunlop2(at)ed-dot-ac-dot-uk +44 131 650 2690 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]