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Polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in type-logical grammar
Chung-chieh Shan
We present a novel, type-logical analysis of_polarity sensitivity_: how negative polarity items (like "any" and "ever") or positive ones (like "some") are licensed or prohibited. I…
Delimited continuations in natural language: quantification and polarity sensitivity
Chung-chieh Shan
Making a linguistic theory is like making a programming language: one typically devises a type system to delineate the acceptable utterances and a denotational semantics to explain…
Question answering: from partitions to Prolog
Balder D. ten Cate, Chung-chieh Shan
We implement Groenendijk and Stokhof's partition semantics of questions in a simple question answering algorithm. The algorithm is sound, complete, and based on tableau theorem pro…
The partition semantics of questions, syntactically
Chung-chieh Shan, Balder D. ten Cate
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition t…
A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity
Chung-chieh Shan
Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause. I present a denotational…
A variable-free dynamic semantics
Chung-chieh Shan
I propose a variable-free treatment of dynamic semantics. By "dynamic semantics" I mean analyses of donkey sentences ("Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it") and other binding a…