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In type logical categorial grammar the analysis of an expression is a resource-conscious proof. Anaphora represents a particular challenge to this approach in that the antecedent resource is multiplied in the semantics. This duplication, which corresponds logically to the structural rule of contraction, may be treated lexically or syntactically. Furthermore, anaphora is subject to constraints, which Chomsky (1981) formulated as Binding Principles A, B, and C. In this paper we consider English anaphora in categorial grammar including reference to the binding principles. We invoke displacement calculus, modal categorial calculus, categorial calculus with limited contraction, and entertain addition of negation as failure.
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Morrill, G., Valentín, O. (2010). On Anaphora and the Binding Principles in Categorial Grammar. In: Dawar, A., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13824-9_15
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