X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=topics%2F_week5_system_F.mdwn;h=36c071cd9e305f2f9ac1e0edc2e2a7daf8c2e1d1;hp=242ada430c4430e6076b668dbb6c4d819a6ad6a8;hb=3b17694f52b6d28bb08cafd1df6333e03c80d764;hpb=be11c9fb4e8f436be20b5ccd5fb5a03794815440 diff --git a/topics/_week5_system_F.mdwn b/topics/_week5_system_F.mdwn index 242ada43..36c071cd 100644 --- a/topics/_week5_system_F.mdwn +++ b/topics/_week5_system_F.mdwn @@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ The classic case study motivating polymorphism in natural language comes from coordination. (The locus classicus is Partee and Rooth 1983.) - Type of the argument of "and": + Type of the arguments of "and": Ann left and Bill left. t Ann left and slept. e->t - Ann and Bill left. (e->t)-t (i.e, generalize quantifiers) Ann read and reviewed the book. e->e->t + Ann and Bill left. (e->t)-t (i.e, generalize quantifiers) In English (likewise, many other languages), *and* can coordinate clauses, verb phrases, determiner phrases, transitive verbs, and many