Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Progressive Model of WSL Syntax & Interpretation: Part 3

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Last time  we saw how to introduce generalized quantifiers  and arbitrary specifier positions into our model of WSL ; but, in the process, w...
Monday, September 21, 2015

A Compositional "yes" and Other Discoveries

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Since WSL is radically everything-drop, it recently occurred to me that a complementizer (or "projector" in WSL-specific terminol...

A Progressive Model of WSL Syntax & Interpretation: Part 2

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Last time , I ended with the note that properly modelling specifier phrases would require splitting the interpretation of argument phrases i...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Non-intersective Nouns & Negative Scopes

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This post is a follow-up to several prior discussion on formal semantics for a minimalistic monocategorial language. If you aren't famil...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Generalized Quantifiers for a Monocategorial Language

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At the end of yesterday's post , I briefly mentioned the concept of generalized quantifiers . Today, I want to investigate how the seman...
Monday, September 7, 2015

A Sister Language for WSL

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My  last post  was triggered by recent discussions on  CONLANG-L  which inspired me to start formalizing the semantics of WSL . But after I ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

A Progressive Model of WSL Syntax & Interpretation: Part 1

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Late last year, as the result of a challenge to create a language with no distinction between verbs and nouns (and more strictly, with no ve...