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Subatomic quantification in language

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Basic information

Original name

Subatomic quantification in language

Authors

WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Pozvaná přednáška na University of Warsaw, 8. 4. 2019, 2019

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Requested lectures

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108027

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

mereology; mereotopology; quantification; partitivity; countability

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International impact
Changed: 21/2/2020 13:24, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, I explore 3 hypotheses regarding natural language semantics: i) natural language is sensitive to topological relations holding between parts of singularities, ii) there are general counting rules that presuppose such relations, and iii) quantification over parts is subject to identical restrictions as quantification over wholes. The evidence comes from distinct classes of Polish proportional quantifiers.

Links

GA17-16111S, research and development project
Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích
Investor: Czech Science Foundation