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


Main Research Question: How can delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, be used to analyze natural language phenomena like quantification and polarity sensitivity?
Main Research Question: How can we better understand the relationship between polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in language?


Methodology: The author proposes using a logical meta-language with syntax that includes control operators and semantics that involve evaluation order. This allows for the expression of analyses in a direct style, rather than using continuation-passing style.
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 author demonstrates how delimited continuations can be used to analyze natural language phenomena such as quantification and polarity sensitivity. They provide examples and explanations to illustrate how these concepts can be applied.
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 research suggests that delimited continuations, a concept from programming languages, can provide a new perspective on natural language semantics. It may lead to new insights and theories about how language works and how it can be processed and understood by computers.
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/0404006v1
Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0404007v1
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arXiv ID: 0404006v1
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