Montague Grammar
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Montague Grammar

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Montague Grammar

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Montague Grammar is a collection of papers that discusses Richard Montague's work on the syntax and semantics of natural languages. The papers examine the applications of Montague's theory to problems of syntax and semantics, and compares Montague's approach to other theories of language. One paper describes the features in Montague's "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English" (PTQ), namely, the grammatical categories and lexicon, the rules most similar to CF-rules, and the treatment of quantification. Another paper presents mechanisms to Montague's grammatical framework which will allow a variety of English constructions—especially those involving sentence embedding. The paper discusses syntactic rules, such as noun phrases, verb phrases, subject-predicate sentences, variable binding, abstracts, verbs taking infinitive complements, the copula, participles. One paper describes a fragment of English that is a variation and extension of the fragment presented in Montague. It also analyses adjectival phrases, three-place and other kinds of verbs, the passive voice, reflexive pronouns, and sentences using the dummy subject "it." Another paper proposes rules, syntactics, and semantics for use in nonrestrictive clauses in a Montague grammar. One paper analyzes factives, their semantic and syntactic properties using the work of Kiparsky and Kiparsky (1971). Montague's "Universal Grammar" (UG) invokes expositions of Montague syntax, Cooper syntax, theorems on conversion process, semantic interpretation, semantic equivalence of the two systems, and interpretive semantics. The collection is intended for readers of Montague, as well as for linguists, philosophers, and students of language.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Montague Grammar
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  7. PREFACE
  8. CHAPTER 1. GENERAL SEMANTICS
  9. CHAPTER 2. SOME TRANSFORMATIONAL EXTENSIONS OF MONTAGUE GRAMMAR
  10. CHAPTER 3. SOME EXTENSIONS OF MONTAGUE GRAMMAR
  11. CHAPTER 4. A VARIATION AND EXTENSION OF A MONTAGUE FRAGMENT OF ENGLISH
  12. CHAPTER 5. SCOPE PHENOMENA, "MOVEMENT TRANSFORMATIONS," AND RELATIVE CLAUSES
  13. CHAPTER 6. FACTIVES AND PROPOSITION LEVEL CONSTRUCTIONS IN MONTAGUE GRAMMAR
  14. CHAPTER 7. MONTAGUE GRAMMAR AND THE LEXICAL DECOMPOSITION OF CAUSATIVE VERBS
  15. CHAPTER 8. QUESTIONS IN MONTAGUE ENGLISH
  16. CHAPTER 9. E SEMANTICS OF DEGREE
  17. CHAPTER 10. CAPTURING THE RUSSIAN ADJECTIVE
  18. CHAPTER 11. MONTAGUE GRAMMAR, GENERATIVE SEMANTICS, AND INTERPRETIVE SEMANTICS
  19. APPENDIX A: CYCLIC RULE APPLICATION
  20. APPENDIX B : SIMPLIFIED FORMS OF TRANSFORMATIONS
  21. APPENDIX C : TRANSFORMATIONAL NOTATION
  22. REFERENCES
  23. INDEX