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“The structure of every sentence is a lesson in logic.” This often quoted statement of John Stuart Mill (1867) leads directly into a controversial area of theoretical grammar.
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Montague’s papers on linguistics and related topics have been edited by R. Thomason, Formal Philosophy. A recent collection of studies is B. H. Partee, Montague Grammar. An introductory paper from the linguistic point of view is B. H. Partee, ‘Montague Grammar and Transformational Grammar’. The present paper, which is a somewhat extended version of a survey lecture to the 4th Scandinavian Logic Symposium, is written from a ‘logician’/mathematician’s point of view.
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Fenstad, J.E. (1979). Models for Natural Languages. In: Hintikka, J., Niiniluoto, I., Saarinen, E. (eds) Essays on Mathematical and Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 122. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9825-4_17
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