Pregroup grammars, their syntax and semantics

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-66545-6_10MaRDI QIDQ5014601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Publication date 8 December 2021

Published in Joachim Lambek: The Interplay of Mathematics, Logic, and Linguistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11237

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic of natural languages (03B65) Grammars and rewriting systems (68Q42) Natural language processing (68T50) Linguistics (91F20)

Abstract: Pregroup grammars were developed in 1999 and stayed Lambek's preferred algebraic model of grammar. The set-theoretic semantics of pregroups, however, faces an ambiguity problem. In his latest book, Lambek suggests that this problem might be overcome using finite dimensional vector spaces rather than sets. What is the right notion of composition in this setting, direct sum or tensor product of spaces?

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