2023
Structured parthood in natural language
WĄGIEL, MarcinZákladní údaje
Originální název
Structured parthood in natural language
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Vydání
Linguistics Department, 13/12/2023, University of Vienna, 2023
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Vyžádané přednášky
Obor
60203 Linguistics
Stát vydavatele
Rakousko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
part-whole structures; structured parthood; mereology; mereotopology
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 17. 2. 2024 23:16, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
Standard approaches to expressions describing part-whole structures in language are grounded in classical mereology, which is built upon the notion of parthood. In this talk, I will argue that this is not enough to capture certain linguistic data. I will discuss a number of linguistic phenomena in the nominal domain calling for an analysis that captures not only part-whole relations but also topological arrangement of parts within a whole. Among others, I will investigate entity partitives such `a half of that apple', Slavic spatial collective nouns, e.g., Czech list `a leaf' `-> listí `foliage', and singulatives, e.g., Ukrainian grad `hail' ~ hradyna `a hailstone', as well as Italian irregular plurals, e.g., osso `a bone' ~ ossi `bones' ~ ossa `(connected) bones (as in a skeleton)'. I will demonstrate that all of these phenomena can be captured if one adopts a more powerful theory of parts and wholes compared to mereology. This theory is called mereotopology and it combines standard mereology with topological notions such as connectedness that allow for modeling various spatial configurations of entities.
Návaznosti
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