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@article{ a_ndjfl93,
  title = {Closed Categories and Categorial Grammar},
  author = {Daniel J.\ Dougherty},
  pages = {36--49},
  journal = {Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic},
  year = {1993},
  volume = {34},
  number = {1},
  abstract = {Inspired by Lambek's work on categorial
                  grammar, we examine the proposal that the
                  theory of biclosed monoidal categories can
                  serve as a foundation for a formal theory of
                  natural language. The emphasis throughout is on
                  the derivation of the axioms for these
                  categories from linguistic intuitions. When
                  Montague's principle that there is a
                  homomorphism between syntax and semantics is
                  refined to the principle that meaning is a
                  functor between a syntax-category and a
                  semantics-category, the fundamental properties
                  of biclosed categories induce a rudimentary
                  computationally oriented theory of language. },
  url = {ndjfl93.pdf}
}