The generative capacity of the lambek-grishin calculus: a new lower bound

  • Authors:
  • Matthijs Melissen

  • Affiliations:
  • Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Université de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Venue:
  • FG'09 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal grammar
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Lambek-Grishin calculus LG is a categorial type logic obtained by adding a family of connectives {⊕,???,???} dual to the family {⊗, /, \}, and adding interaction postulates between the two families of connectives thus obtained. In this paper, we prove a new lower bound on the generative capacity of LG, namely the class of languages that are the intersection of a context-free language and the permutation closure of a context-free language. This implies that LG recognizes languages like the MIX language, e.g. the permutation closure of {anbncn | n ∈ N}, and {anbncndnen | n ∈ N}, which can not be recognized by tree adjoining grammars.