Metaphors and Type Theory
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Metaphorical use of language is often thought to be at odds with compositional, truth-conditional approaches to semantics: after all metaphors are literally false. In this paper we sketch an approach to simple metaphors based on standard type theory. The approach is classical: we do not invent a new logic. The approach models sense extension in that a supertype extends the predicate given in a particular sentence while avoiding extending the original predicate. Metaphors are interpreted as reduced similes. A compositional syntax / semantics interface is provided. The approach readily translates into a simple Prolog implementation.
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