Montague grammar

British

/ ˈmɒntəˌɡjuː /

noun

logic linguistics a model-theoretic semantic theory for natural language that seeks to encompass indexical expressions and opaque contexts within an extensional theory by constructing set-theoretic representations of the intension of an expression in terms of functions of possible worlds

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Etymology

Origin of Montague grammar

named after Richard Merett Montague (1930–71), US logician

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