Re: unnatural languages

On Mar 14, 3:13 pm, Aidan Kehoe <keh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ar an triú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

> On Mar 13, 3:48 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:
>
> > BTW, algebraic notation can be applied to ordinary
> > language. Variables are linguistic entities, which
> > can substitute for anything, and have rigid rules.
> > Euclid could, and did, use variables for geometric
> > objects, but variables for anything else had not yet
> > been invented.
>
> Applications of logical systems to human language were tried --
> Generative Semantics, Montague grammar -- and were soon abandoned.

Heh, you're aware that people are still getting research grants for
computational linguistics?

Which has little or nothing to do with GS or Montague grammar; comp
ling deals with the mining and manipluation of databases, not with
syntactic/semantic structure.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: unnatural languages
    ... Variables are linguistic entities, which ... capabilities of "algebraic notation" to language. ... of, or people, we could use variables for notation. ... When introduced in algebra or "prealgebra", ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: unnatural languages
    ... Variables are linguistic entities, which ... > Applications of logical systems to human language were tried -- ... A friend of mine develops an artificial barkeeper. ... emotions.’ ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: unnatural languages
    ... Variables are linguistic entities, which ... can substitute for anything, and have rigid rules. ... Euclid could, and did, use variables for geometric ... Applications of logical systems to human language were tried -- ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: unnatural languages
    ... Variables are linguistic entities, which ... I was not suggesting replacing language, ... are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. ... Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University ...
    (sci.lang)