[ontolog-forum] Formal semantics in Linguistics (was Re: Barbara Partee

[Simon Spero <sesuncedu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Partee can be considered very much  a Montagovian at heart ; the closest counterpart within the generative semantic deviancy would be the late Jim McCawley.

A more personal reflection on her own career can be found at https://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/BHP_Essay_Feb05.pdf

McCawley's text "Everything linguists always wanted to know about logic... but were ashamed to ask" is still good reading,   http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Linguists-Always-Wanted-Ashamed/dp/0226556115

A possible framework for integrating Cog Ling into a logical formalism might be Sign Based Construction Grammar, which attempts to unify Berkeley style construction grammar with Stanford style HPSG. See eg.

Boas, H. C., & Sag, I. A. (Eds.). (2012). Sign-Based Construction Grammar (pp. xvi+-391). CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language and Information.
< http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/LI11-SBCG/papers/sag-synopsis.pdf>

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