Annihilating atoms with entity partitives

p 2022

Annihilating atoms with entity partitives

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Základní údaje

Originální název

Annihilating atoms with entity partitives

Autoři

WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Polsko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Department of Linguistics, 10/05/2022, University College London, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129314

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

partitives; part-whole structures; mereology; mereotopology; subatomic quantification; atomicity

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 8. 1. 2023 15:46, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In standard theories of pluralities and countability, the mass/count distinction is often formulated in terms of atomicity (e.g., Link 1983, Landman 1991, 2000, Chierchia 1998, 2010, Champollion 2017). Despite significant differences in particular theories, the contrast between count and mass nouns usually boils down to the (non-)existence of minimal building blocks in their denotations or, alternativley, to a distinct nature of those building blocks. The approach developed in this talk rejects the view that what counts as `one' is best represented as an atomic entity. Instead, building on a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics (Grimm 2012, see also Casati & Varzi 1999) I propose that countability is a feature of individuals that constitute non-overlapping and integrated wholes (as opposed to, e.g., scattered entities and arbitrary sums). The evidence comes from entity partitives involving numerical quantification over material parts of referents of concrete count singular NPs, e.g., *three parts of the teddy bear*. First, I will present the problem such constructions pose for atomicity-based approaches to the mass/count distinction. Next, I will discuss two attempts to account for that problem, i.e., the theories of Chierchia (2010) and Landman (2016), and point what I believe to be their shortcomings. Then, I will argue for two claims, specifically (i) having a notion of atomicity is not enough for a full analysis of entity partitives and (ii) atomicity is actually not needed for that purpose since it can be replaced by mereotopological notions which are required independently. Finally, I will discuss independent cognitive evidence which seems to support my approach.

Návaznosti

GA20-16107S, projekt VaV

Název: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Citovat

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Annihilating atoms with entity partitives. In Department of Linguistics, 10/05/2022, University College London. 2022.

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ER  -

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Annihilating atoms with entity partitives. In \textit{Department of Linguistics, 10/05/2022, University College London}. 2022.

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