ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to change perspective, and survey a range of linguistic phenomena and some ways in which they have been described using categorial grammars (CGs). Specifically, phonological segments will be assigned atomic or functional categories which encode the phonotactic constraints of any given language. The greatest part of categorial linguistic description has looked at syntactic phenomena, either assuming or to some degree developing an integral compositional semantics for any syntactic derivation. Moortgat tackles the harder problem of bracketing paradoxes in Dutch, German and English word formation, and their implications for the range of rules needed by a grammar; Hoeksema and Janda look in a similar way at language-universal morphology. The grammar is implemented in Prolog, with each lexical entry as a Prolog clause. The other major unification-based grammars have well-developed rule types for these regularities, such as the 'meta-rules' of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar and the 'lexical rules' of Lexical-Functional Grammar.
