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Linglib.Phenomena.Coordination.Studies.Steedman2000

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    LINKING THEOREM: CCG derives both sides of the semantic equivalence

    The phenomena-level data (from Phenomena/Coordination/Data.lean): "John likes and Mary hates beans" ≡ "John likes beans and Mary hates beans"

    CCG's prediction: both sentences derive and receive equivalent meanings.

    This theorem proves CCG derives the non-constituent coordination sentence. (The full equivalence proof would require implementing the spelled-out derivation too.)

    THE SUBSTANTIVE SEMANTIC THEOREM

    CCG derives the meaning of "John likes and Mary hates beans" as the conjunction of two predications:

    ⟦John likes and Mary hates beans⟧ = ⟦John likes⟧(beans) ∧ ⟦Mary hates⟧(beans)

    This is non-trivial because it requires:

    1. Type-raising John and Mary to S/(S\NP)
    2. Composing with the verbs to get S/NP
    3. Coordinating with generalized conjunction (pointwise ∧)
    4. Applying to the shared object

    The theorem proves CCG's compositional semantics matches the empirical observation.