Generalized coordination, Flexible Montague Grammar
Chris A. Barker, Chung-chieh Shan · 2014
Abstract Chapter 7 argues that Partee and Rooth’s theory of generalized coordination implicitly involves a limited form of continuation‐capture. On a continuation account, coordination can be analyzed as reuse of a continuation: first, the continuation of the coordinated expression is combined with one coordinand, then with the other one. Continuations are implicit also in Hendriks’ Flexible Montague Grammar, a conceptually related type‐shifting system. Like the continuation‐based tower fragment, Flexible Montague Grammar is a simple type‐shifting system that provides a robust account of scope relations. However, it is not well‐suited to reasoning about order, and therefore is not able to explain crossover contrasts. This claim is explored by extending Flexible Montague Grammar with a binding type‐shifter, and noting that the type‐shifter generates crossover violations.