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Semantic Types, Lexical Sorts and Classifiers
Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré
We propose a cognitively and linguistically motivated set of sorts for lexical semantics in a compositional setting: the classifiers in languages that do have such pronouns. These…
Learning Lambek grammars from proof frames
Roberto Bonato, Christian Retoré
In addition to their limpid interface with semantics, categorial grammars enjoy another important property: learnability. This was first noticed by Buskowsky and Penn and further s…
Advances in the Logical Representation of Lexical Semantics
Bruno Mery, Christian Retoré
The integration of lexical semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of the meaning of natural lan- guage has prompted changes to the global framework derived from Montague. In thos…
Type-theoretical natural language semantics: on the system F for meaning assembly
Christian Retoré
This paper presents and extends our type theoretical framework for a compositional treatment of natural language semantics with some lexical features like coercions (e.g. of a town…
Some proof theoretical remarks on quantification in ordinary language
Michele Abrusci, Christian Retoré
This paper surveys the common approach to quantification and generalised quantification in formal linguistics and philosophy of language. We point out how this general setting depa…