Nate Charlow has an interesting post over at his blog about CCG and the ontology of syntax, where he voices some concerns about the redundancy of different operators (function application and function composition)/derivations in yielding the same interpretations for the same expressions. There’s already an interesting little discussion brewing over there, and these are the sorts of concerns that theoretical linguists need to have an appropriate response to, so I very much recommend checking it out. I may add my own thoughts on the matter when I have some time to, but for now, I think Simon does a very good job in representing our camp.

emma :: Jun.15.2007 :: misc, syntax, semantics, philosophy, linguistics :: No Comments »