Polly Jacobson's paper "A Categorial View of Syntactic Categories: Evidence from
Unexpected Coordinations" has appeared in Linguistic Inquiry (MIT Press) online early.
This paper argues that a very natural view of syntactic categories in Categorial Grammar
(CG) combined with a few other common assumptions within CG provides an immediate
account of unexpected coordinations which have received little attention in the literature, such as
the example in (1) (modeled after facts noticed in Maxwell and Manning 1996): Barry plays
hammered dulcimer, standup bass, does magic tricks, and Patty plays the flute. While similar
cases were first in Maxwell and Manning they have received almost no discussion since. The
paper argues not only that they have an immediate account in CG but that certain constraints on
the order of the conjuncts also follow as an immediate consequence of this view of syntactic
categories combined with a few other assumptions compatible with the basic CG view of
categories.