Monads for natural language semantics
Chung-chieh Shan

    In K. Striegnitz (Ed.) (2001), Proceedings of the ESSLLI-2001
    Student Session, 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language
    and Information, 285-298.

Abstract

    Accounts of semantic phenomena often involve extending types of
    meanings and revising composition rules at the same time. The
    concept of monads allows many such accounts -- for intensionality,
    variable binding, quantification and focus -- to be stated
    uniformly and compositionally.

Acknowledgments

    Thanks to Stuart Shieber, Dylan Thurston, Chris Barker, Normay
    Ramsey, Wheeler Ruml, and the anonymous referees for helpful
    discussions and comments.