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In this paper I want to describe a universal theory of “grammatical relations” that arises naturally within the formal theory of syntax and semantics of natural language developed originally by Richard Montague (1970, 1973) and subsequently extended in a certain series of treatments of Montague’s ideas that begins with Thomason 1976 (first written in 1972) and includes Thomason 1974, Dowty 1979a (written in 1975), Dowty 1975, Dowty 1978, Bach 1979 (written in 1977), Bach 1980, and Schmerling 1979. I believe this analysis of grammatical relations is supported by some of the same observations as are the related theories of Relational Grammar and Arc Pair Grammar developed by Perlmutter, Postal, and others (Perlmutter and Postal 1977, Johnson and Postal forthcoming, Perlmutter and Postal to appear, Perlmutter this volume, Postal this volume).
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Dowty, D. (1982). Grammatical Relations and Montague Grammar. In: Jacobson, P., Pullum, G.K. (eds) The Nature of Syntactic Representation. Synthese Language Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7707-5_4
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