Parts, wholes, clusters and a unified notion of parthood

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Parts, wholes, clusters and a unified notion of parthood

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Základní údaje

Originální název

Parts, wholes, clusters and a unified notion of parthood

Autoři

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Vydání

Pozvaná přednáška na Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) v rámci Semantics Circle, 06.11.2019, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108025

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

mereology; mereotopology; quantification; partitivity; countability

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 18. 2. 2020 14:45, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč

Anotace

V originále

In the talk, I will argue in favor of a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics (Grimm 2012; see also Casati & Varzi 1999) based on the evidence from the cross-linguistic distribution of proportional quantifiers such as *part* (Moltmann 1997), partitives including Italian irregular plurals (Ojeda 1995, Acquaviva 2008) and *whole* adjectives (Moltmann 1997, Morzycki 2002). The general claim is that singularities and pluralities do not involve two distinct mereological structures as typically assumed in standard lattice-theoretic approaches (e.g., Link 1983, Landman 2000, Champollion 2017) but rather that they share a unified notion of parthood and differ in the way parts are arranged with respect to each other. While count singulars encode a notion of integrity, regular plurals do not specify any topological relation between the parts of a whole. On the other hand, Italian irregular plurals designate clusters, i.e., plural entities that incorporate a topological notion of connectedness to hold between parts of a plural yet integrated individual. I will argue that the empirical evidence calls for a radical rethinking of the ontology of nominal semantics.

Návaznosti

GA17-16111S, projekt VaV

Název: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Citovat

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Parts, wholes, clusters and a unified notion of parthood. In Pozvaná přednáška na Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) v rámci Semantics Circle, 06.11.2019. 2019.

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WĄGIEL, Marcin. Parts, wholes, clusters and a unified notion of parthood. In \textit{Pozvaná přednáška na Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) v rámci Semantics Circle, 06.11.2019}. 2019.

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