Jacobson's system contains two main combinators, *g* and *z*. She
calls *g* the Geach rule, and *z* effects binding. (There is a third
-combinator, *l*, which adjusts function/argument order when the
-argument precedes its functor, but we'll finesse that here by freely
-reordering the English predicates so that functors always precede
-their arguments.) Here is a typical computation (based closely on
-email from Simon Charlow, with beta reduction as performed by the
-on-line evaluator):
+combinator which following Curry and Steedman, I'll call *T*, which
+we'll make use of to adjust function/argument order to better match
+English word order; N.B., though, that Jacobson's name for this
+combinator is "lift", but it is different from the monadic lift
+discussed in some detail below.) Here is a typical computation (based
+closely on email from Simon Charlow, with beta reduction as performed
+by the on-line evaluator):
<pre>
; Analysis of "Everyone_i thinks he_i left"
let g = \f g x. f (g x) in
let z = \f g x. f (g x) x in
-let everyone = \P. FORALL x (P x) in
let he = \x. x in
-everyone ((z thinks) (g left he))
+let everyone = \P. FORALL x (P x) in
+
+everyone (z thinks (g left he))
~~> FORALL x (thinks (left x) x)
</pre>
operator that used `unit` to produce a monadic result, if we wanted to.
The monad version of *Everyone_i thinks he_i left*, then (remembering
-that `he = fun x -> x`, and that `l a f = f a`) is
+that `he = fun x -> x`, and letting `t a f = f a`) is
<pre>
everyone (z thinks (g left he))
~~> forall w (thinks (left w) w)
-everyone (z thinks (g (l bill) (g said (g left he))))
+everyone (z thinks (g (t bill) (g said (g left he))))
~~> forall w (thinks (said (left w) bill) w)
</pre>