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 -April-2019-AUC-Logic-Lectures-Series-Maria-Aloni
DTSTAMP:20190413T211813
SUMMARY:AUC Logic Lectures Series, Maria Aloni
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Maria Aloni (ILLC/UvA)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190415T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20190415T190000
LOCATION:AUC Common Room, Science Park 113, Amster
 dam
DESCRIPTION:Formal semantics investigates natural 
 langauge meanings using tools from formal logic. I
 n the presentation i will briefly introduce the fi
 eld and then discuss then case of free choice (FC)
  inferences, where conjunctive meanings are derive
 d from disjunctive sentences contrary to the presc
 rtiptions of classical logic.  There have been two
  main approaches to the challenge that FC inferenc
 es present for logic-based accounts of linguistic 
 meanings: a pragmatic approach where FC inferences
  are treated as conversational implicatures derive
 d as the product of rational interactions between 
 cooperative language users and a semantic approach
  where FC inferences are treated as sematic entail
 ments and therefore require the development of non
 -classical modal logics. After comparing the two a
 pproaches I will defend a novel hybrid appraoch wh
 ere FC inferences are derived by allowing pragmati
 c principles intrude in the recursive process of m
 eaning composition.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>Formal semanti
 cs investigates natural langauge meanings using to
 ols from formal logic. In the presentation i will 
 briefly introduce the field and then discuss then 
 case of free choice (FC) inferences, where conjunc
 tive meanings are derived from disjunctive sentenc
 es contrary to the prescrtiptions of classical log
 ic.</p>\n\n  <p>There have been two main approache
 s to the challenge that FC inferences present for 
 logic-based accounts of linguistic meanings: a <st
 rong>pragmatic</strong> approach where FC inferenc
 es are treated as conversational implicatures deri
 ved as the product of rational interactions betwee
 n cooperative language users and a <strong>semanti
 c</strong> approach where FC inferences are treate
 d as sematic entailments and therefore require the
  development of non-classical modal logics. After 
 comparing the two approaches I will defend a novel
  hybrid appraoch where FC inferences are derived b
 y allowing pragmatic principles intrude in the rec
 ursive process of meaning composition.</p>\n
URL:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2019/newsitem/10771/15
 -April-2019-AUC-Logic-Lectures-Series-Maria-Aloni
CONTACT:Dora Achourioti at t.achourioti at uva.nl
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