We show that the problems of parsing and surface realization for grammar formalisms with “context-free” derivations, coupled with Montague semantics (under a certain restriction) can be reduced in a uniform way to Datalog query evaluation. As well as giving a polynomialtime algorithm for computing all derivation trees (in the form of a shared forest) from an input string or input logical form, this reduction has the following complexity-theoretic consequences for all such formalisms: (i) the decision problem of recognizing grammaticality (surface realizability) of an input string (logical form) is in LOGCFL; and (ii) the search problem of finding one.
