Talk:Richard Montague

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Would be great to get some more work done on this...

-AlmostC

I've removed the reference to "rough trade" as a motive for his murder. Feferman and Feferman was quoted to this effect, but just having read that book today and since double-checking again the referenced pages, I'm certain that there is nothing at all that suggests "trade" in that work. "Trade" is the practice of an (often wealthy) homosexual man taking an (often poor) heterosexual man as a sexual partner. The Feferman's state that Montague did engage in high-risk behavior, such as cruising bars and bringing home strangers, and they state that he had been robbed once before during such an encounter, but again, there is no suggestion at all about "rough trade".

-spaecious

I don't think his work is especially influential in computational linguistics. I've done graduate work in both computational linguistics and traditional linguistics, and his work has much more impact in traditional linguistics. In any case, such a claim needs attribution.

141.154.96.67 16:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Right, Montague's work has a stronger influence on what you see coming from linguistics departments than say computer-science departments (where it also has influence to this day, see as just one example Blackburn & Bos, 2005). But even when the influence is isolated to pure linguistics analyses, it's inherently computational in nature. So "computational linguistics" has a wide scope of meaning, and I think that's what the editor of this entry had in mind. 96.241.126.252 (talk) 07:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

For anyone who's skeptical about the claims in this entry regarding the surprising bar-cruising homosexual behavior of Montague and its suspected connection to his murder. The provided reference, Feferman and Feferman, can be searched and read via its amazon.com page ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/052171401X ). It seems that what's stated in this entry is accurate. 96.241.126.252 (talk) 04:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

If Richard Montague has been, as it seems he has, a homosexual, why isn't it mentioned in the article? All there is, is a link to the LGBT-category. Personally, I wouldn't even deem these kinds of 'background information' important in an encyclopedia, yet, at the same time, I've no problem with it. A mere link to LGBT at the end, however, without any additional explanation as to his specific connection to that, seems not so helpful. After all, he also could've been an anti-LGBT activist, or something else entirely. So long as it is considered important enough to justify a link to the LGBT category, it should also be important enough to get mentioned in the actual article. Zero Thrust (talk) 01:35, 16 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The link in the section I've added should at least partially address this. Barbara Partee's career retrospective provides a different professional but also personal perspective. 72.228.150.44 (talk) 21:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)