Type Similarity for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus Revisited

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The topic of this paper concerns a particular extension of Lambek’s syntactic calculus [5] that was proposed by Grishin [4]. Roughly, the usual residuated family ( ⊗ ,/,\) is extended by a coresiduated triple () mirroring its behavior in the inequality sign:

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Bastenhof, A. (2014). Type Similarity for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus Revisited. In: Casadio, C., Coecke, B., Moortgat, M., Scott, P. (eds) Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54789-8_3

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