Categorial grammar and the semantics of contextual prepositional phrases

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-417

  Francez, Nissim ^a   Steedman, Mark ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatory categorial grammar; Scope; Surface compositional semantics; Temporal and locative modifiers; Temporal and locative semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751557635     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-006-9000-8     Document Type: Article

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