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Programming Denotational Semantics II [PDF]

The Computer Journal, 1985
The Denotational Semantics of a small programming language is coded into Algol-68 to give an interpreter. The Semantics incorporates many of the notions of Standard Semantics including declarations, declaration continuations, final answers and stores or memory which are used to define block structuring, output and parameterless procedures. This extends
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
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Meaning‐Making in the Theatre of the Mind: Reading and Interpreting a Play in the EFL Classroom

Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how reading literary plays in‐character in the primary EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom can engage young language learners both in literary meaning‐making and in the target language. The study explores a drama‐based teaching approach that focuses on embodied role‐reading of a play, emphasising interpretation ...
Chrysiida Psarri
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R for semantics [PDF]

We would like in this note to offer a constructive criticism of current work in the semantics of programming languages, a criticism directed not so much at the techniques and results obtained as at the use to which they are put. The basic problem, in our
Ashcroft, Edward A., Wadge, William W.
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Operational and goal-independent denotational semantics for Prolog with cut [PDF]

, 2000
In this paper we propose an operational and a denotational semantics for Prolog. We deal with the control rules of Prolog and the cut operator. Our denotational semantics provides a goal-independent semantics. This means that the behaviour of a goal in a
SPOTO, Nicola Fausto, Spoto, Fausto
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What are particularistic pejoratives?

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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McDowell and Sellars on Objective Purport

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 313-332, March 2026.
Abstract John McDowell has criticized Wilfrid Sellars on several occasions and over a number of years for his ‘non‐relational’ account of intentionality. This account is, according to McDowell, at least partly responsible for a ‘blind spot’ in Sellars's thinking: Sellars, allegedly, fails to see how objects or states of affairs in the external world ...
Stefan Brandt
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The Gradability of ‘Conscious’

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 392-405, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Are some creatures “more conscious” than others? A number of consciousness researchers have aimed to answer this question. Yet some have claimed that this question does not even make sense. They claim that “conscious” (in the phenomenal sense) never occurs as a gradable adjective, meaning an adjective that permits degree expressions (“more f ...
Andrew Y. Lee, Poppy Mankowitz
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Disentangling Parallelism and Interference in Game Semantics [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
Game semantics is a denotational semantics presenting compositionally the computational behaviour of various kinds of effectful programs. One of its celebrated achievement is to have obtained full abstraction results for programming languages with a ...
Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault
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A Coalgebraic Semantics for Imperative Programming Languages [PDF]

, 2014
In the theory of programming languages, one often takes two complementary perspectives. In operational semantics, one defines and reasons about the behaviour of programs; and in denotational semantics, one abstracts away implementation details, and ...
Abou-Saleh, Faris
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