Chung-chieh Shan

Title: Chung-chieh Shan

Main Research Question: How can monads be used to structure natural language semantics?

Methodology: The paper introduces the concept of monads and demonstrates how they can be applied to natural language semantics. It presents four monadic analyses to illustrate the approach, including the powerset monad for interrogatives, the pointed powerset monad for focus, the state monad for intensionality, and the continuation monad for variable binding.

Results: The paper shows how monads can be used to uniformly and compositionally state analyses of well-known phenomena in natural language semantics. It also discusses combining monads to account for interactions between semantic phenomena.

Implications: The use of monads in natural language semantics allows for a clearer presentation and simplification of analyses. It also increases modularity in the definition of computations, making it easier to revise and extend the semantic theories.

Link to Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/0205026v1 Authors: arXiv ID: 0205026v1