ABSTRACT

The term categorial grammar was coined by Bar-Hillel (see Bar-Hillel, 1970, p. 372) to refer to a method of grammatical analysis initially developed by the Polish logicians Leśniewski and Ajdukiewicz (see Leśniewski, 1929; Ajdukiewicz, 1935; English translation in McCall, 1967, pp. 207-31) on the basis on Husserl’s (1900/1913-21) ‘pure grammar’, a universal, rationalist (see RATIONALIST LINGUISTICS) grammar specifying the laws governing the combination of meaningful elements of languages.