Montague grammarn.
/ˈmɒntəɡjuː ˌɡramə/, U.S. /ˈˌmɑn(t)əɡju ˈɡræmər/ Linguistics.
A linguistic theory which maintains that a grammar is built up from individual syntactic units, each of which has a corresponding semantic unit. Also: a description of the grammar of a language in terms of this theory.
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universal grammar1751
recognition grammar1926
tagmemics1947
structural grammar1949
speculative grammar1951
generative grammar1959
generativism1965
standard theory1966
systemic grammar1967
case grammar1968
Montague grammar1972
1972 R. Rodman Papers in Montague Gram. (U.C.L.A. Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. 2) 80 A generalization is captured in a Montague Grammar that as yet has not, and perhaps can not be captured by any ‘standard’ grammar.
1973 Jrnl. Philos. Logic 2 509 (heading) Some transformational extensions of Montague grammar.
1978 Language 54 370 It seems that it should be possible, as in a Montague grammar.., to build up the semantic representations of sentences together with the syntactic ones.
1984 in C. Hookway Minds, Machines & Evol. (1987) 91 In Montague grammar one begins with lexical items (of known categories) and ‘assembles’ lower-level structures... [These] are then themselves syntactically combined..and so on, until the sentence in question is produced.
1989 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 54 1091 This is much closer to the approach used in Montague grammars.
1991 Jrnl. Semantics 8 340 Montague Grammar..associates so-called semantic types to syntactic categories, in such a way that syntax and semantics have a perfectly parallel structure.
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