From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5139 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Wells Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: categories and linguistic? Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:33:53 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: Charles Wells NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252847275 21124 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2009 13:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:07:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Fourman , catbb Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Sun Sep 13 15:07:47 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 1Mmonx-000352-OS for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MmoLj-0002f6-WB for categories-list@mta.ca; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:38:36 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5139 Archived-At: Linguists use the word "category" to mean what computer scientists would call a variable symbol in a context-sensitive grammar. Charles Wells On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Michael Fourman wrote: > 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/ ]