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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">Dear everyone,
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we'd like to invite you to a talk by Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk
University in Brno) that will be given on Tuesday 24.04 at
16:45-18:15 in the Seminarraum II (NOT Seminarraum 2!!)
in the German Studies Department (University's main building,
Schottentor).
At the following link you can find a detailed plan of the building
that can help you find the room, in case you have never been there
(or you have no clue despite having been there before):
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wegweiser.ac.at/univie/hoersaal/98.html">http://www.wegweiser.ac.at/univie/hoersaal/98.html</a><br>
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The title of the talk is: "Subatomic quantification in natural
language". See below for the abstract.
<br>
<br>
Enrico Flor [and Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski,
Viola
<br>
Schmitt]
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ABSTRACT: "In standard lattice-theoretic approaches to natural
language (e.g., Link 1983,<br>
Landman 2000, Champollion 2017) singularities and pluralities are
presumed to<br>
involve distinct mereologies and it is commonly supposed that
quantificational<br>
expressions do not access subatomic part-whole relations. In this
paper, I<br>
explore three hypotheses regarding natural language semantics: i)
natural<br>
language is sensitive to topological relations holding between
parts of<br>
singularities (cf. Grimm 2012), ii) there are general counting
rules that<br>
presuppose such relations, and iii) quantification over parts is
subject to<br>
identical restrictions as quantification over wholes. The evidence
comes from<br>
the interaction between cardinal numerals and partitives involving
irregular<br>
plurals in Italian as well as distinct classes of Polish `half'
words and from<br>
the quantificational behavior of multipliers such as English
`double'."
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