From: barker Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:42:01 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6d595a7debc79f07cfc3c364a8ceaab96185386 --- diff --git a/schedule_of_topics.mdwn b/schedule_of_topics.mdwn index d4c94db2..753c058a 100644 --- a/schedule_of_topics.mdwn +++ b/schedule_of_topics.mdwn @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s ## The "pure" or untyped lambda calculus ## 1. Beta reduction -2. Subtitution; using alpha-conversion and other strategies +2. Substitution; using alpha-conversion and other strategies 3. Conversion versus Reduction 4. Eta reduction and "extensionality" -5. Different evaluation strategies +5. Different evaluation strategies (call by name, call by value, etc.) 6. Strongly normalizing vs weakly normalizing vs non-normalizing; Church-Rosser Theorem(s) 7. Encoding pairs (and triples and ...) @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 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? +18. Some references: + * de Groote on the lambda-mu calculus in linguistics * on donkey anaphora and continuations * Wadler on symmetric sequent calculi @@ -77,18 +77,18 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 5. Other interesting monads: reader monad, continuation monad 6. [Phil/ling application] Monsters and context-shifting, e.g. Gillies/von Fintel on "ifs" -7. Montague / Yoad Winter? (just have this written down in my notes, I assume Chris will remember the reference) +7. Montague / Ben-avi and Winter, [A modular approach to intensionality](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdocsummary?doi=10.1.1.73.6927) 8. Passing by reference -9. [Phil/ling application] Fine and Pryor or "coordinated contents" +9. [Phil/ling application] Fine and Pryor on "coordinated contents" ## Continuations (continued) ## -1. Using CPS to handle abortive computations +1. Using CPS to handle abortive computations (think: presupposition failure) 2. Using CPS to do other handy things, e.g., coroutines 3. Making evaluation order explicit with continuations (could also be done earlier, but I think will be helpful to do after we've encountered mutation) -4. Delimited continuations +4. Delimited (quantifier scope) vs undelimited (expressives, presupposition) continuations 5. [Phil/ling application] Barker/Shan on donkey anaphora @@ -97,6 +97,6 @@ This is very sketchy at this point, but it should give a sense of our intended s 1. Basics of parallel programming: semaphores/mutexes 2. Contrasting "preemptive" parallelism to "cooperative" parallelism (coroutines, above) 3. Linear logic -4. [Phil/ling application] Barker on free choice +4. [Phil/ling application] Barker on free choice, imperatives