Continuations and Natural Language

Continuations and Natural Language
Author: Chris Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0199575029


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The continuation of an expression is a portion of its surrounding context. This book proposes and defends the continuation hypothesis: that the meaning of a natural language expression can depend on its own continuation (it can denote a function on its surrounding context).