There are some well-known linguistic applications of Combinatory
Logic, due to Anna Szabolcsi, Mark Steedman, and Pauline Jacobson.
-Szabolcsi supposed that the meanings of certain expressions could be
-insightfully expressed in the form of combinators.
-
+They claim that natural language semantics is a combinatory system: that every
+natural language denotation is a combinator.
For instance, Szabolcsi argues that reflexive pronouns are argument
duplicators.
![reflexive](http://lambda.jimpryor.net/szabolcsi-reflexive.jpg)
Notice that the semantic value of *himself* is exactly `W`.
-The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines first with the transitive verb (through compositional magic we won't go into here). The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning.
+The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines with the transitive verb. The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning.
Note that `W <~~> S(CI)`: