Semantic categories and the development of categorial grammars

Claudia Casadio

pp. 95-123

in: Richard T. Oehrle, Emmon Bach, Deirdre Wheeler (eds), Categorial grammars and natural language structures, Berlin, Springer, 1988

Abstract

A main claim about Categorial Grammars is that they involve semantic categories rather than the standard syntactic categories employed in linguistic description. But, what kind of entities are semantic categories? What relation do they impose between syntactic structure and semantic representation?