[PLing] Semantics Talk by Marcin Wągiel next week Wednesday

[Daniel Büring]

Everybody is cordially invited to join a talk by *Marcin Wągiel* on 
*Wednesday, Dec 13th, 14:30*

Location: *SR2*, 1st floor, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Vienna


Note: Marcin has also offered to give us a more thorough introduction to 
mereotypology in the form of a two or three part seminar in January, if 
there is interest. So if you want to check out if mereotypology is your 
thing, this talk is a good occasion to do so.



    Structured Parthood in Language

Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University in Brno & University of Wrocław)

Standard approaches to expressions describing part-whole structures in 
language are grounded in classical mereology, which is built upon the 
notion of parthood. In this talk, I will argue that this is not enough 
to capture certain linguistic data. I will discuss a number of 
linguistic phenomena in the nominal domain calling for an analysis that 
captures not only part-whole relations but also topological arrangement 
of parts within a whole. Among others, I will investigate entity 
partitives such `a half of that apple', Slavic spatial collective nouns, 
e.g., Czech /list/ `a leaf' `-> /listí/ `foliage', and singulatives, 
e.g., Ukrainian /grad/ `hail' ~ /hradyna/ `a hailstone', as well as 
Italian irregular plurals, e.g., /osso/ `a bone' ~ /ossi/ `bones' ~ 
/ossa/ `(connected) bones (as in a skeleton)'. I will demonstrate that 
all of these phenomena can be captured if one adopts a more powerful 
theory of parts and wholes compared to mereology. This theory is called 
mereotopology and it combines standard mereology with topological 
notions such as connectedness that allow for modeling various spatial 
configurations of entities.

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fax (Sekretariat): +43 1 4277 9417   +43 664  60277-41710
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