The Category of the Conjuction in Categorial Grammar
ISSN: 1132-256X
Año de publicación: 1991
Número: 1
Páginas: 301-341
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Catalan working papers in linguistics
Resumen
In this work a categorial type for conjunctions (and, or, etc) is proposed within the Categorial Grammar formalism. First of all, I present three main characteristics that have to be accounted for in any analysis of conjunction. Secondly, I explain the different contributions that have been made within this formalism to fmd a category for conjunction that allows us to account for natural language phenomena. All those proposals are commented on with regard to the three properties to be explained. Next, a categorial type for conjunctions is proposed which can account for those characteristics. This category introduces a new n-tuple operator which is also useful for analysing other natural language phenomena.