Enriched Meanings: Natural Language Semantics with Category Theory

by Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh

This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain expressions that exhibit complex effects at the semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning space, while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic meanings are mapped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198847858
• ISBN13: 9780198847854
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.8"