Combinatory categorial grammar as a substructural logic: preliminary remarks

  • Authors:
  • Daisuke Bekki

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Science, Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • JSAI-isAI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper aims to provide a logical background for Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) and its typological discussions. Based on the Curry-Howard correspondence between Gentzen-style proof systems and Lambek Lamda Calculi, and those between Hilbert-style proof systems and substructural BCWK-logic, I define a new class of logic which provides subclasses for each of the substructural combinatory logics, called Subdirectional Combinatory Logic, and propose that CCG is a subdirectional logic of a relevance logic (Combinatory Hypothesis). This hypothesis allows us to discuss typological parameters in universal grammar in terms of the presence/absence of a certain directional combinators.