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Continuations in Natural Language (2004) [pdf]

30 pointsby quazarabout 6 years ago

2 comments

casual_slackerabout 6 years ago
I think I understand this. In &quot;he only drinks soda&quot;, The token &quot;only&quot; opens the opportunity for &quot;fcontrol&quot; (like yield in a generator) to be resolved at a yet-to-be-determined position in the sentence. So if you &quot;run&quot; the function of `only { f(drink) soda }` or `only { drink f(soda) }`, `drink soda` is an independent construction by itself, but this pitch accent allows an additional information channel to be threaded through it.<p>I imagine generalizing this, not just &quot;fcontrol&quot; but other information-awaiters, it would be like functions wrapped in decorators of the various yield-channels they can emit to. Probably someone already does this.
mofeienabout 6 years ago
After skimming the paper without having a strong understanding of continuations, chapter 4 on focused&#x2F;stressed words was the most understandable to me, I recommend to start there.