Wkłady „Mereological semantics” – Lucas Champollion
Szanowni Państwo,
w dniach 21-22 czerwca 2011 (wtorek i środa)
w Instytucie Filozofii UW, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, sala nr 13
w godzinach 10.15-11.45 oraz 14.15-15.45
Lucas Champollion, doktor semantyki z NYU
wygłosi serię wykładów poświęconych semantyce mereologicznej (algebraicznej) i jej zastosowaniom do modelowania takich zjawisk języka naturalnego, jak aspekt, dystrybutywność, kwantyfikacja.
Pełny opis wykładów znajdą Państwo poniżej.
Osoby zainteresowane uczestnictwem w wykładach prosimy o przesłanie informacji na adres Pani dr Justyny Grudzińskiej: j.grudzinska@uw.edu.pl
Mini-lecture series on mereological semantics Lucas Champollion, University of Tuebingen, Germany http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~champoll/
Expressions like 'John and Mary’ or 'the water in my cup’ intuitively involve reference to collections of individuals or substances. The parthood relation between these collections and their components is not modeled in standard formal semantics of natural language (Montague 1974, Heim and Kratzer 1998), but it plays central stage in what is known as mereological or algebraic semantics (Link 1998, Krifka 1998, Landman 2000). In this mini-lecture series I will prezent state-of-the-art research into selected subfields of mereological semantics: aspect, distributivity, collectivity, quantification, and measurement. Using mereological semantics as a foundation, I will develop a unified framework which provides novel formal connections and the ability to transfer insights across these subfields (Champollion 2011). I will discuss issues involving ontology and philosophy of language, and show how these issues interact with semantic theory depending on how they are resolved. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of predicate logic required. Knowledge of formal semantics and mereology useful but not required.
References:
Champollion, L. (2010). Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement. PhD thesis, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Heim, I. and Kratzer, A. (1998). Semantics in Generative Grammar. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.
Landman, F. (2000). Events and plurality: The Jerusalem lectures. Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Link, G. (1998). Algebraic semantics in language and philosophy. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
Krifka, M. (1998). The origins of telicity. In Rothstein, S., editor, Events and grammar, pages 197-235. Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Montague, R. (1974[1970]). The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English. In Thomason, R., editor, Richard Montague: Selected Papers, pages 247-270. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.