Spring 2012 IA165 Combinatory Logic for Computational Semantics by Juyeon Kang
Classwork N°.1
due to 24 February 2012
1. Some semantic phenomena (Quantifiers, Anaphora)
Question: What do you observe in the following sentences? Do you find some double readings
from one sentence?
(1) Every man loves a woman.
(2) Every car has a radio.
(3) John loves golf, and Mary too.
2. Basic notions: Function and argument
Question: Translate, as precisely as possible, the following fragments into the function and
argument structure. Remind you the concepts of operator/operand, complete/incomplete
expression and that of categoreme/syncategoreme expression.
# Convention: (Operator(Oprerand))
(4) The author of The American Way of Eating
(5) She knows her way around a kitchen.
(6) The produce management is so sloppy
(7) She is gloomily aware.
(8) I watch an endless assembly line.
Sentences from the NYT Feb 20 2012