The donkey and the monoid. Dynamic semantics with control elements

DOI10.1023/A:1013026830239MaRDI QIDQ5960010zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Albert Visser

Publication date 11 April 2002

Published in Journal of Logic, Language and Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013026830239

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic relation algebrase-monoidsinteraction of meaningsmodelspolarity switchersignaturesvariants of dynamic predicate logic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic of natural languages (03B65) Natural language processing (68T50) Linguistics (91F20)

Review text

The author introduces some variants of the dynamic predicate logic (DPL). In Section 2, the author specifies what he means by a variant of DPL and details the used tools: e-monoids, dynamic relation algebras, signatures and models. In Section 3, the author develops his first variant of DPL by adding a polarity switcher. The switcher just changes the streams to which the local contributions are added. Some paraphrases about a farmer and his donkey (!!!) illustrate both the flexibility and the rigidity of this variant. A systematic use of monoids allows to programme the interaction of meanings.

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