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-## Schedule of Topics ##
-
 This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended scope.
 
 
-### Introduction ###
+## Introduction ##
 
 1.	Declarative vs imperatival models of computation.
 2.	Variety of ways in which "order can matter."
@@ -12,7 +10,7 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 5.	Functions as "first-class values"
 6.	"Curried" functions
 
-### The "pure" or untyped lambda calculus ###
+## The "pure" or untyped lambda calculus ##
 
 1.	Beta reduction
 2.	Subtitution; using alpha-conversion and other strategies
@@ -36,11 +34,11 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 
 18.	Introducing the notion of a "continuation", which technique we'll now already have used a few times
 
-### Types ###
+## Types ##
 
 1.	Product or record types, e.g. pairs and triples
 2.	Sum or variant types; tagged or "disjoint" unions
-3.	Maybe/option types
+3.	Maybe/option types; representing "out-of-band" values
 4.	Zero/bottom types
 5.	Unit type
 6.	Inductive types (numbers, lists)
@@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 10.	[Phil/ling application] inner/outer domain semantics for positive free logic
 	<!-- <http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/antonelli/papers/pegasus-JPL.pdf> -->
 
-11.	[Phil/ling application] King vs Schiffer in King 2007. pp 103ff
+11.	[Phil/ling application] King vs Schiffer in King 2007, pp 103ff.
 12. [Phil/ling application] King and Pryor on that clauses, predicates vs singular property-designators
 13.	Possible excursion: Frege's "On Concept and Object"
 
@@ -61,10 +59,16 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 
 15.	The types of continuations; continuations as first-class values
 16.	[Phil/ling application] Partee on whether NPs should be uniformly interpreted as generalized quantifiers, or instead "lifted" when necessary. Lifting = a CPS transform.
+17.	[Phil/ling application] Expletives
+
+18.	Misc references: Chris?
+	*	de Groeten on lambda-mu and linguistics?
+	*	on donkey anaphora and continuations
+	*	Wadler on symmetric sequent calculi
 
-17.	Dependent types
+19.	Dependent types
 
-### Side-effects and mutation ###
+## Side-effects and mutation ##
 
 1.	What difference imperativity makes
 2.	Monads we've seen, and the "monadic laws" (computer science version)
@@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 9.	[Phil/ling application] Fine and Pryor or "coordinated contents"
 
 
-### Continuations (continued) ###
+## Continuations (continued) ##
 
 1.	Using CPS to handle abortive computations
 2.	Using CPS to do other handy things, e.g., coroutines
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s
 5.	[Phil/ling application] Barker/Shan on donkey anaphora
 
 
-### Preemptively parallel computing and linear logic ###
+## Preemptively parallel computing and linear logic ##
 
 1.	Basics of parallel programming: semaphores/mutexes
 2.	Contrasting "preemptive" parallelism to "cooperative" parallelism (coroutines, above)