The theory and practice of first-class prompts
POPL '88 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
The syntactic process
Linguistic side effects
Presupposition accommodation as exception handling
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
SDRT and continuation semantics
JSAI-isAI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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We show in this paper how the computer science concept of ‘continuations’, together with categorial grammars and a type shifting mechanism, is able to account for a wide range of natural language semantic phenomena, such as hierarchical discourse structure, ellipses, accommodation and free-focus and bound-focus anaphora. The merit of continuations in the dynamic semantics framework is that they abstract away from assignment functions that are essential to the formulations of Dynamic Intensional Logic, Dynamic Montague Grammar, Dynamic Predicate Logic and Discourse Representation Theory, Thus, continuation style semantic do not pose problems such as the destructive assignment problem in Dynamic Predicate Logic or the variable clash problem in Discourse Representation Theory. We argue that continuations are a versatile and powerful tool, particularly well suited to manipulate scope and long distance dependencies, phenomena that abound in natural language semantics.