X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=_applications.mdwn;h=339a6622d50dd930841df649fd82d4a569e8c1a5;hp=37d06d21c2646a8da4eb211f715868e42752242b;hb=e36eaae1de25d2ba2b42afe2f77f51f6a2470a7b;hpb=4ead7b27afc25d543a216bd48890443df3789c8c diff --git a/_applications.mdwn b/_applications.mdwn index 37d06d21..339a6622 100644 --- a/_applications.mdwn +++ b/_applications.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ We mentioned a number of linguistic and philosophical applications of the tools From linguistics ---------------- -* 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. @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ See [a paper by me (CB)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022183511876) for detailed * 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 ---------------