From 3ef22cae11ec60126584496a6923b967510e70ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Pryor Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:05:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] reader/var: adjectives Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- reader_monad_for_variable_binding.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/reader_monad_for_variable_binding.mdwn b/reader_monad_for_variable_binding.mdwn index 2e24babb..9ddddc88 100644 --- a/reader_monad_for_variable_binding.mdwn +++ b/reader_monad_for_variable_binding.mdwn @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ In Heim and Kratzer's textbook Semantics in Generative Grammar, the -Now the normal way in which the nodes of such trees are related to each other is that the semantic value of a parent node is the result of applying the functional value of one of the daughter nodes to the value of the other daughter node. (The types determine which side is the function and which side is the argument.) One exception to this general rule is when multiple adjectives are joined together, as happens in \[[interprets complex English phrases]]. We'll ignore that though. +Now the normal way in which the nodes of such trees are related to each other is that the semantic value of a parent node is the result of applying the functional value of one of the daughter nodes to the value of the other daughter node. (The types determine which side is the function and which side is the argument.) One exception to this general rule concerns intersective adjectives. (How does \[[complex]] combine with \[[phrases]]?) We'll ignore that though. Another exception is that Heim and Kratzer have to postulate a special rule to handle lambda abstraction. (This is their "Predicate Abstraction Rule.") Not only is it a special rule, but it's arguably not even a compositional rule. The basic idea is this. The semantic value of: -- 2.11.0