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August 18, 2005
Routes to Montague
Here's an update on the old "getting to know Montague" post. From Rich Thomason's 70-page introduction to Formal Philosophy (1974):
A paper by Barbara Partee, Partee [11], contains detailed comparisons of the grammar of Chapter 8 [Montague's "The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English] with transformational grammar, and her work in Rodman [13] contains, as well as syntactic extensions of Montague's fragments, further material helping to make Montague's work accessible to linguists. In this introduction we will therefore try to illuminate Montague's work on English in a different way, which may help to make it understandable to those familiar with logic. (16)
(Partee [11] is a reference to "Comments on Richard Montague's "Quantification in Ordinary English" in Hintikka, Moravcsik and Suppes (eds.) Approaches to Natural Language, (Dortrecht, 1973) and Rodman [13] is Papers in Montague Grammar, (LA, 1972) and (charmingly) $3 per copy to Mr Robert Rodan, Linguistics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024)
I don't know whether that address will still work. I'm definitely on the logic track though - Thomason's introduction is super-clear.
UPDATE: If I were in Melbourne on Friday, I'd be going to this:
Melbourne Logic Seminar
Allen Hazen (Melbourne)
English as a Formal Language: Montague for Beginners and Others.
11am, B07, Old Quad.
Posted by logican at August 18, 2005 10:00 AM
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