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There are many depending on where you want to start and what exactly you want.
Usually textbook start with giving semantics to the While or IMP language and then give references to semantics of lambda calculus (typed untyped) unless you are reading Gunter. I am listing down a few below that I have referenced a number of times:
Operational Denotational and ...
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Although I personally would describe type analysis as semantic, this question seems to start with the assumption that there is a clear, formally-definable dividing line between "syntax" and "semantics".
I don't think that is the case; even if most of us would put type-correctness into one category and missing parentheses into the other one, there is a ...
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(From my limited experience) I would certainly call type-soundness a semantic property of a program, rather than a syntactic one.
In some dynamic languages (e.g., lisp, python sans type annotations & mypy, etc.), there is no syntax for types (and the semantic verification of type soundness is done at runtime in these languages).
In some static ...
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