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Language

• Lamb, Sydney M, and Jonathan Webster. Language and Reality. London; New York: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8264-9297-5
• Jean-Philippe Bernardy Shalom Lappin. Unitary Matrices As Compositional Word Embeddings. 2022. Linguistic tool that bridges the goals of transparent compositionality and situational robustness.
• Linguistic drive: The desire by young people to have their own language which is not understood by others. The same for ethnic tribes or social classes.

Chomsky: Successor function derives from the merge function applied unitarily to a single object.

Lincos language constructed language for commuting with extraterrestrials

Can large language models work by simply transforming existing input - taken to be grammatical - to preserve grammaticality.

Robert Brandom. Making It Explicit.

• Pragmatic approach. Context defines meaning.

In neural networks, categories emerge. Monosemantics allows information to be independent, thus vastly reduces the complexity, compared with polysemantics.