WĄGIEL, Marcin. Clustering events: Event-external/internal quantification in English, Mandarin Chinese and Polish. In 15th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 15), 07/10/2022, Humboldt University of Berlin. 2022.
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Original name Clustering events: Event-external/internal quantification in English, Mandarin Chinese and Polish
Authors WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 15th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 15), 07/10/2022, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2022.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Requested lectures
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Odkaz na web konference
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129352
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English event-internal quantification; event-external quantification; events; acts; occasions; multiplicatives; mereology; mereotopology; part-whole structures
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Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D., učo 362974. Changed: 7/3/2023 15:49.
Abstract
In this talk, I combine three strands of the recent research on the distinction between event-external and event-internal quantification (i.e., quantification over acts and occasions, respectively) in order to provide a novel account for the cross-linguistic facts. The first strand concerns typological generalizations concerning the syntactic and morphological expression of acts and occasions in three types of languages exemplified by English, Polish and Mandarin Chinese. The second strand regards the relationship between the two postulated categories, which remains unclear since both seem to fall into the ontological class of eventualities. Finally, I extend mereotopology in order to capture the semantic nature of the distinction. The proposed model combines novel cross-linguistic observations with well-known ontological considerations and recent developments in modeling part-whole structures in natural language.
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GA20-16107S, research and development projectName: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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