Publications in Mathematical Linguistics

Books and Lecture Notes

  1. "The Mathematics of Language", Studies in Generative Grammar No. 63, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2003. For a list of errors see here.

Articles

  1. "Too Many Languages Satisfy Ogden's Lemma", Proceedings of the 27th Pennsylvania Linguistics Colloquium. Penn Linguistics Club Working Papers No. 10.1, 115 - 121
  2. "Constraints on Derivations", Grammars 6(2003), 89 - 113.
  3. "Syntax in Chains", Linguistics and Philosophy 24(2001), 467 - 529.
  4. "Logic and syntax - a personal perspective", in: Maarten de Rijke, Krister Segerberg and Michael Zakharyaschev (eds.): Advances in Modal Logic '98, CSLI, 2001, 337 - 366.
  5. "Strict Compositionality and Literal Movement Grammars", in: Michael Moortgat (ed.): "Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 98", Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 2014, 2001, 126 - 142.
  6. "Inessential Features", in: Christian Retore (ed.): "Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics", Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1328, 1997, 43 - 62.
  7. "Semilinearity as a Syntactic Invariant", in: Christian Retore (ed.): "Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics", Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 1328, 1997, 329 - 345 (with Jens Michaelis).
  8. "Is there a genuine modal perspective on feature structures?", Linguistics and Philosophy 18(1995), 401 - 458.
  9. "Syntactic Codes and Grammar Refinement", Journal of Logic, Language and Information 4(1995), 41 - 60.
  10. "Mathematical Aspects of Command Relations", Proceedings of the European Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1993, 240 - 249.
  11. "On the Logic of Category Definitions", Computational Linguistics 15(1989), 111 - 113.


In Preparation

  1. "On Independent Pumpability. Manuscript, UCLA, October 2005.
  2. "On the Logic of LGB-Type Structures. Part III: Minimalism", Manuscript, UCLA, October, 2005. (This paper is a sequel to Nos. 8 and 5 below.)
  3. "On the Logic of LGB-Type Structures. Part II: Reentrancy Structures", Manuscript, UCLA, September, 2005. (This paper is a sequel to No. 5 below.)
  4. "Pregroup Grammars are Turing Complete", to appear in the Proceedings of the 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 2005. (With Greg Kobele.)
  5. "The Emergence of Syntactic Structure", Manuscript, UCLA, November, 2004. Presented on the 9th Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 30, 2004 at UC Irvine.
  6. "On the Logic of LGB-Type Structures. Part I: Multidominance Structures", Manuscript, UCLA, October, 2004. (This paper is the basis of a talk given in honour of Uwe Mönnich in Freudenstadt.)
  7. "On Strings, Bracelets and Bracketings", Manuscript, UCLA, October 2004. (The facts are known but the proof seems to be new; anyway, it's fun.)
  8. "Is Adjunction Compositional?", manuscript, UCLA, April, 2004.
  9. "Partial Algebras, Meaning Categories, and Algebraization", AMiLP 03, Verona, Italy.
  10. "A New Proof of a Theorem by Ginsburg and Spanier". Manuscript, UCLA, December 2002. (I published the proof in "The Mathematics of Language".)

Marcus Kracht
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