Strong and Weak Quantifiers in Focused NL\(_{\text {CL}}\)

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Abstract

We propose an improvement of Barker and Shan’s [4] NL\(_{\text {CL}}\) for which derivability is decidable, which has a normal-form for proof search, can analyse scope islands, and distinguish between strong and weak quantifiers.

Keywords

Categorial grammar Focusing Scope Islands Indefinite scope 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute for Logic, Language and ComputationUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamNetherlands

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