Part-whole structures

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Part-whole structures. In Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) 2023, 31/07-04/08/2023, University of Novi Sad. 2023.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Part-whole structures

Autoři

WĄGIEL, Marcin

Vydání

Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) 2023, 31/07-04/08/2023, University of Novi Sad, 2023

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Srbsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

part-whole structures; mereology; mereotopology; partitives; collectives; singulatives; roles

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

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Anotace

V originále

The category of part-whole is one of the key cognitive notions in human mind. In this class, we will explore various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. I will investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories that encode different kinds of part-whole structures across languages, e.g., partitives, plurals, proportional quantifiers, whole-adjectives, collective nouns and singulatives. For instance, I will explore how `Half the flag is red' differs semantically from `A/One half of the flag is red' (Wągiel 2018) and consider why `I raked the leaves into a pile' is felicitous, whereas `#I raked the foliage into a pile' is not (Grimm 2012). I will compare two theories of parts and wholes, specifically standard mereology introduced to linguistics in the seminal paper by Link (1983) and a newer development called mereotopology, which extends mereology with topological notions such as connectedness, and thus enables for modelling different kinds of spatial configurations within a part-whole structure (Grimm 2021, Lima 2014, Scontras 2014, Wągiel 2018, 2021, Igel 2021). As a result, a mereotopological approach will allow us to distinguish ontologically between three types of entities: integrated wholes (e.g., the referents of the singular count noun `pebble') arbitrary sums (e.g., the referents of the plural nouns `pebbles') and clusters, i.e., pluralities structured in a particular topological configurations (e.g., the typical referents of the granular noun `gravel'). Finally, I will consider part-whole structures in more abstract domains including eventualities and roles.

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Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1249/2022, interní kód MU

Název: Lexikon a gramatika češtiny III - 2023 Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Lexikon a gramatika češtiny III - 2023