Linguistic Side Effects
Chung-chieh Shan · 2007
Abstract This paper relates cases of apparent non-compositionality in natural languages to those in programming languages. It is shaped like an hourglass: I begin in §4.1 with an approach to the syntax–semantics interface that helps us build compositional semantic theories. That approach is to draw an analogy between computational side effects in programming languages and what I term by analogy linguistic side effects in natural languages.