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Title: Chung-chieh Shan
Title: Chung-chieh Shan


Research Question: How can we create a variable-free treatment of dynamic semantics?
Main Research Question: How can we better understand the relationship between polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in language?


Methodology: The author proposes a variable-free treatment of dynamic semantics. This involves denoting sets of what they traditionally denote in Montague grammar, and assigning types to noun phrases. Nondeterminism is added to any Montague grammar by replacing each semantic type with a transformed type.
Methodology: The study uses a type-logical analysis to examine how negative and positive polarity items are licensed or prohibited in a given linguistic environment. It employs the programming language concepts of delimited continuations and evaluation order to provide a more empirical coverage than previous proposals.


Results: The new theory presented here achieves a compositional treatment of dynamic anaphora that does not involve assignment functions, and separates the combinatorics of variable-free semantics from the particular linguistic phenomena it treats. It also makes new empirical predictions, such as the "donkey puzzle" effect.
Results: The analysis presents a novel approach to polarity sensitivity, incorporating both semantic properties and syntactic restrictions. It makes correct predictions about the acceptability of certain sentences, such as "Nobody's mother saw anybody's father."


Implications: The integration of variable-free semantics and dynamic semantics gives rise to interactions that make new empirical predictions. This could potentially lead to new insights into linguistic phenomena and the way we process and understand language.
Implications: This study contributes to a greater understanding of the syntax-semantics interface in language. It provides a more comprehensive explanation of polarity sensitivity than previous proposals, and its use of programming language concepts opens up new avenues for research in computational linguistics.


Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0205027v1
Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0404007v1
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Authors:  
arXiv ID: 0205027v1
arXiv ID: 0404007v1
 
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 24 December 2023

Title: Chung-chieh Shan

Main Research Question: How can we better understand the relationship between polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in language?

Methodology: The study uses a type-logical analysis to examine how negative and positive polarity items are licensed or prohibited in a given linguistic environment. It employs the programming language concepts of delimited continuations and evaluation order to provide a more empirical coverage than previous proposals.

Results: The analysis presents a novel approach to polarity sensitivity, incorporating both semantic properties and syntactic restrictions. It makes correct predictions about the acceptability of certain sentences, such as "Nobody's mother saw anybody's father."

Implications: This study contributes to a greater understanding of the syntax-semantics interface in language. It provides a more comprehensive explanation of polarity sensitivity than previous proposals, and its use of programming language concepts opens up new avenues for research in computational linguistics.

Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0404007v1 Authors: arXiv ID: 0404007v1

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