Continuations and Natural Language: 53 (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

by Chris Barker (Author), Chris Barker (Author), Chung-Chieh Shan (Author)

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  2014

  $154.56

  This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning. Summarizing over a decade of research, Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan put forward the Continuation Hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation