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Compositionality, implicational logics, and theories of grammar

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  1. Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9LW, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Glyn Morrill & Bob Carpenter

  2. Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, 135 Baker Hall, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.

    Glyn Morrill & Bob Carpenter

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We would like to thank Inge Bethke, Kit Fine, Ewan Klein, Marcus Kracht, Barry Richards, Honk Zeevat, and two anonymous referees, for valuable comments on this material. The work was carried out by the first author under U.K. ESRC Postgraduate Award 000428522008, and by the second under U.S. NSF Graduate Fellowship RCD-8651747 and U.K. ORS Award ORS/8428.

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Morrill, G., Carpenter, B. Compositionality, implicational logics, and theories of grammar. Linguist Philos 13, 383–392 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00630748

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