X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=week2.mdwn;h=49a7e8d5af7632592a80b80b6351058bb97c1a7c;hp=3ddbe5b990d9502e40f982a013ffdef4a0354bee;hb=673e6ce8ada5e8f4e0f41b3900d1a4d0dbf92d1f;hpb=1870fb26abc412e120d0a4055072db9ff6ebbd1d diff --git a/week2.mdwn b/week2.mdwn index 3ddbe5b9..49a7e8d5 100644 --- a/week2.mdwn +++ b/week2.mdwn @@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ One can do that with a very spare set of basic combinators. These days the stand There are some well-known linguistic applications of Combinatory Logic, due to Anna Szabolcsi, Mark Steedman, and Pauline Jacobson. -They claim that natural language semantics is a combinatory system (that every -natural language denotation is a combinator). +They claim that natural language semantics is a combinatory system: that every +natural language denotation is a combinator. For instance, Szabolcsi argues that reflexive pronouns are argument duplicators. @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ duplicators. ![reflexive](http://lambda.jimpryor.net/szabolcsi-reflexive.jpg) Notice that the semantic value of *himself* is exactly `W`. -The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines first with the transitive verb (involving a simple and well-motivated combinator that we won't pause to discuss here). The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning. +The reflexive pronoun in direct object position combines with the transitive verb. The result is an intransitive verb phrase that takes a subject argument, duplicates that argument, and feeds the two copies to the transitive verb meaning. Note that `W <~~> S(CI)`: