>> "The seeds of your confusion are very evident from your message".

> The seeds of your unsubstantiated assumptions about me are very evident from yours.

OK Michael, I can see I'm not helping. I'll stop.

On NLP (a topic on which I have some expertise), I'll save you time in your search: Haskell is not suitable. Use a NLP tool. Programming languages and their semantics are so unlike natural languages as to be useless.

I found your "primer for the lexical semanticist" to be full of strained and unhelpful analogies. I was surprised it omitted mention of Montague Grammar -- which draws from Lambda calculus/Combinators, and would be the obvious go-to _if_ Haskell were to be applicable.

On unsubstantiated assumptions:

> I started programming at 15.

Me too. (Dartmouth BASIC on a teletype over a dial-up line to a timeshare service.)

> It's been a very rare year, even after leaving the software profession, when I didn't write at least some code, learning new things in the process.

Me ditto.

> Which means I've been looking at programming languages and how to implement things at the most appropriate level of abstraction possible for just a few months shy of fifty years.

For me, a few months over fifty years.

(BTW nothing you've said persuades me away from recommending the best way to learn Haskell is via Lambda-calculus.)

AntC