TITLE: What categories correspond to the typed lambda calculus with parametric types?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: the unadorned typed lambda calculus correspond to the closed cartesian categories, but if we add in dependent or parametric types how are they then characterised?

REPLY [11 votes]: Dependent type theory, i.e., $\lambda$-calculus with dependent products and dependent sums corresponds to locally cartesian closed categories, which was written up by R. Seely in "Locally cartesian closed categories and type theory", Math. Proc. Phil. Comb. Soc, (1984), 95, 33.
If by "parametric types" you mean the kind of polymorphism that is present in ML, then one possible semantics is that of relationally parametric models. Probably the most influental in the development of this idea was John Reynolds, see for example his "Types, abstraction and parametric polymorphism" from 1983.