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Our investigation up till now has been concerned with the linguistic category of determiners, including quantifiers. But, the techniques developed can be brought to bear upon arbitrary grammatical types: adjectives, connectives, adverbs, etc. To broaden our scope, we will work against the background of an extensional categorial grammar, with basic types e (‘entity’) and t (‘truth value’) — as in Section 1.1. — allowing formation of functional types (a, b) (‘from a-denotations to b-denotations’). Models will then be semantic structures (D a ) a € TYPE, With base domains D e , D t and a recursive construction rule D(a, b) = D b D a . Chapter 7 is devoted to further theoretical study of this mechanism as such.
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Van Benthem, J. (1986). All Categories. In: Essays in Logical Semantics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4540-1_3
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