{"id":259,"date":"2003-03-02T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-02T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=259"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"linguistic_side_effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/02\/linguistic_side_effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\nChung-chieh Shan (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda.weblogs.com\/discuss\/msgReader$5982\">Lambda<\/a>):\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lambda.weblogs.com\/discuss\/msgReader$5982\">\n\nMaking a linguistic theory is like specifying a programming language: one typically devises a type system to characterize what utterances are acceptable, and a denotational semantics to explain which statements entail which other ones.  Along this connection, programming language research can inform linguistic theory and vice versa; in particular, computational side effects are intimately related to referential opacity in natural languages.  In this talk, I will illustrate this link by using continuations and composable contexts to analyze quantification (as in &ldquo;every student passed&rdquo;).\n\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chung-chieh Shan (via Lambda): Making a linguistic theory is like specifying a programming language: one typically devises a type system to characterize what utterances are acceptable, and a denotational semantics to explain which statements entail which other ones. Along this connection, programming language research can inform linguistic theory and vice versa; in particular, computational side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}