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When contemporary categorial grammar is viewed as a theory of natural language syntax and semantics, the feature which most distinguishes it methodologically from other current linguistic theories is its assumption that (‘surface’) syntactic form is logical form, i.e. that no other significant levels of analysis (‘LF’, F-structure, etc.) need be appealed to to yield an adequate semantics from the syntax. Empirically, one of this theory’s very distinctive achievements in syntax has been a successful analysis of so-called non-constituent coordination, a construction which has resisted an analysis that is adequate in both semantics and syntax in any other theory (Steedman, 1985; Dowty, 1985[1988]). However, these two important features have appeared to come into irresolvable conflict in a kind of analysis called ‘Wrapping’: this paper will show, among other things, that this conflict is only apparent.
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Dowty, D. (1997). Non-Constituent Coordination, Wrapping, and Multimodal Categorial Grammars. In: Chiara, M.L.D., Doets, K., Mundici, D., Van Benthem, J. (eds) Structures and Norms in Science. Synthese Library, vol 260. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0538-7_21
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