Teaching Logic to Linguists: the Logical Approach to Grammar
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Natural Language Grammar can be viewed as a formal system in many aspects. The traditional way of presenting grammar to students as a set of morphosyntactic rules in order to speak a language correctly can be substituted profitably by formal models that explain the interfaces between morphology, syntax and semantics and even pragmatics. These models are based in most cases in logical models. There are many grammatical theories that can be named logical grammars or formal grammars that represent these models.
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