From linguistics
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-* Generalized quantifiers are a special case of operating on continuations. [[!wikipedia Richard_Montague]] analyzed all NPs, including, e.g., proper names, as sets of properties.
+* Generalized quantifiers are a special case of operating on continuations. [[!wikipedia Richard_Montague]] analyzed all NPs, including, e.g., proper names, as sets of properties.
This gives names and quantificational NPs the same semantic type, which explain why we can coordinate them (*John and everyone*, *Mary or some graduate student*). So instead of thinking of a name as refering to an individual, which then serves as the argument to a verb phrase, in the Generalized Quantifier conception, the name denotes a higher-order function that takes the verb phrase (its continuation) as an argument. Montague only continuized
one syntactic category (NPs), but a more systematic approach would continuize uniformly throughout the grammar.
See [a paper by me (CB)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022183511876) for detailed discussion.
* Anaphora, as in *Everyone's mother loves him* (which says that for every person x, x's mother loves x). [A paper by CB and Chung-chieh Shan](http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-6580-7) discusses an implementation in terms of delimited continuations. See also a different implementation in work of [Philippe de Groote](http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/7577/4/salt16_degroote_1_16.pdf).
* As suggested in class, it is possible to think of the side effects of expressives such as *damn* in *John read the damn book* in terms of control operators such as call/cc in Scheme.
-At the end of the seminar we gave a demonstration of modeling [[damn]] using continuations...see the [summary](/damn) for more explanation and elaboration. In the meantime, you can read a new paper about this idea [here](http://tinyurl.com/cbarker/barker-bernardi-shan-interaction.pdf)---comments welcome.
+At the end of the seminar we gave a demonstration of modeling [[damn]] using continuations...see the [summary](/damn) for more explanation and elaboration. In the meantime, you can read a new paper about this idea [here](http://tinyurl.com/cbarker/barker-bernardi-shan-interaction.pdf)---comments welcome.
From philosophy
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