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  1. Mar 2016
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    1. ‘I have a cat and two dogs’

      italics? quotation marks? It's not really the complement of "say", so maybe italics is the way to go instead of quotation marks, but on the other hand, it feels like a complement of "say"

    2. any movement out of them must be “across the board” movement out of all theconjuncts

      barring well-recognized exceptions such as "a book to sit down and read " or "shenanigans you can pull and not get fired".

    3. ‘and’ relations is a non-trivial problem. A survey of words translatedas ‘and,’ ‘or,’ or ‘but

      Double quotation marks are used to indicate words in the main text.

    4. and, or, but,

      You've switched from single quotation marks to double and now to italics. I would go with the italics, as that seems to be more standard in linguistics writing.

    5. Decide style for referring to actual (English) words, or words used to refer to a kind of relation, or words exemplified by English words ("however") but which are not to be taken as specific words.

  3. Feb 2016
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    1. a closer look at the representational format discussed inSteedman

      With so much presentation of Steedman's CCG approach, it is easy for the novice to overlook this sentence announcing the intent to focus on this representational format. It is worth noting that there is a fair amount of literature in type-logical CG, the variety espoused by Morrill, Dowty, Moortgat, and others. Furthermore, it's not just a representational variation, but a different view of the role of rules in a grammar. The rules in a TLCG form a logical system, such that the operations of type-raising, composition, and others are derivable as theorems. I'm not suggesting doubling the size of this chapter by adding TLCG sections, but its existence, and your choice to focus on the CCG variety, should be highlighted so that interested readers can pursue the topic if they so desire.

    2. llow for so much flexibility that it is even possible to assigna category to sequences of words that would not normally be treated as a constituent.

      The same can be said for non-combinatory, type-logical CGs, in which type-raising and composition can be derived as theorems. See Dowty 1988 on non-constituent coordination.

    3. The same is true of type-logical categorial grammars, as long as they have Associativity and introduction rules as well as elimination rules. The needed type-raising and composition rules can be derived as theorems.

  5. Jan 2016
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    1. One would have to generalizethe rule in (10) somehow by introducing new technical means5

      Dowty 1997 proposes a multimodal CG analysis with a "wrap" modality to handle precisely these cases.

    2. Put "As in GB theory," at the beginning of the sentence. Where it is, it allows the interpretation that valence is encoded only once in CG, just as it's encoded only once in GB, and additionally, that this one-time encoding is in the lexicon, which may or may not be like GB.

    3. Some stellar works in the field of semantics are those of Richard Mon-tague (1974)

      This sentence doesn't seem to belong in a paragraph about Categorial Grammar in General. It might go better in the next paragraph, with a clarification that Montague's works are not merely about semantics, but semantics tightly connected with syntax.