Professor Calvin Montague Clark, D.D.

Dynamic Montague Grammar ∗

Compositionality in Montague Grammar

Though not the first to introduce the notion, Montague has been a key figure in promoting the principle of compositionality. Montague himself proposed both an abstract program and a grammar for a fragment of English. In his fragment he makes particular choices for the manipulation of meanings that have later been modified. This work has sparked off numerous important developments. For example, ...

Montague Grammars as Deductive Databases

This paper presents a technique for further applications of deductive databases in the eld of natural language processing. Although there were enormous research eeorts on analyzing the semantics of natural languages (NL), especially using Montague grammars (PTQ) for Prolog, corresponding programs for deductive databases are still missing, since range restriction is required in nearly all deduct...

Incremental Montague Grammar

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