Logic and Grammar: Essays Dedicated to Alain Lecomte on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6700)

This book contains selected papers from the Colloquium in Honor of Alain Lecomte, held in Pauillac, France, in November 2007. The event was part of the ANR project "Prélude" (Towards Theoretical Pragmatics Based on Ludics and Continuation Theory), the proceedings of which were published in another FoLLI-LNAI volume (LNAI 6505) edited by Alain Lecomte and Samuel Tronçon. The selected papers of this Festschrift volume focus on the scientific areas in which Alain Lecomte has worked and to which he has contributed: formal linguistics, computational linguistics, logic, and cognition. Front Matter....Pages - Bare Nouns in Predicate Position in French....Pages 1-16 Covert Movement in Logical Grammar....Pages 17-40 Categorial Grammars and Minimalist Grammars....Pages 41-60 Minimalist Grammars and Minimalist Categorial Grammars: Toward Inclusion of Generated Languages....Pages 61-80 Minimalist Grammars in the Light of Logic....Pages 81-117 Good Types Are Useful for Learning....Pages 118-137 Dialogues in Ludics....Pages 138-157 Back Matter....Pages -