How Can One Greek Letter Help Us Understand Language? Lambda Calculus

How can we capture the meanings of transitive sentences? How do we match our syntax trees to our semantics? In this week's episode, we talk about lambda calculus: why we need it to explain what our other semantic machinery can't, how to work out its math, and what it can show us about how words move around in sentences.
This is Topic #69!
This week's tag language: Lakota!
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Sources:
Most of the information for this episode came from Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer's 1998 book, Semantics in Generative Grammar. Also, the Wikipedia page on Lambda Calculus is pretty good:
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We also recommend Anders Schoubye's lecture notes, Formal Semantics for Philosophers:
schoubye.org/te...
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