Denotational semantics is presented as a valuable theoretical tool, having many applications including language design, compiler generation and program analysis. In particular, a method is described for deriving a concise and useful functional representation of a program using a denotational definition of the source language’s semantics. Our aim is to translate a given program into a compact fu...

This paper presents an analysis of Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Japanese within the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar [Steedman 2000]. Shimoyama [1999] argues that when an IHRC appears within the scope of a universal quantifier, the interpretation of the IHRC exemplifies E-type anaphora and that the LF representation of the IHRC should have a variable bound...

In (1), it is shown that believe can, but know cannot, license the entailment from x Vs the rumor that p to x Vs that p (Vendler 1972, Ginzburg 1995). As I will argue in detail below, in the standard assumption that know has a proposition-taking denotation, an additional stipulation will be needed to block whatever the mechanism that licenses the entailment of believe in the case of know. In th...

We present a new approach to a sentence of interrogative form in Japanese within the framework of Montague Grammar. The possibility of various uses of an interrogative sentence; uses as a question, an exclamation, a rhetorical question, a demand and a recommendation is explained based on the same denotation for the sentence. The denotation which is neutral for all possible uses is defined in te...

A typical thread in research relies on the maturing of ideasthrough an iterative process of construction, testing and refinement.In this talk I will trace some such trajectories of ideas by illustrationfrom some of my own and others’ experiences in agent-based modelling.I draw inspiration from previous commentaries, including from thosewho generated the mottos: “No Notation ...

Type assignment systems for λ-calculus based on intersection types are a general framework for building models of λ-calculus (known as filter-models) which are useful tools for reasoning in a finitary way about the denotational intepretation of terms. Indeed the denotation of a term is the set of types derivable for it and a type is a “finite piece” of information on such a denotation. This app...

This paper offers an account of the semantics of count nous. I show that neither the atomic/nonatomic distinction nor the homogeneous/non-homogeneous distinction is sufficient to explain the semantic contrast between mass and count nouns, since there are mass nouns which are atomic, and there are count nouns which are homogeneous. Starting from a version of Chierchia's 1998a account of the sema...

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This research is an analysis of a poem written by Willliam Wordswort. The writer analyses the Wordswort's titled I Wandered Lonely As Cloud (Daffodils) to reveal denotation and connoation as symbolic meaning. To analyze it uses qualitative-descriptive method data. also Roland Barthes theory meaning on Wordsworth's poem. Reasearch finding this tha Daffodils mostly naturalistic symbol so that con...