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UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/2306/19-
 May-2008-Logic-Language-and-Reasoning-Seminar-Nina
 -Gierasimczuk-and-Jakub-Szymanik
DTSTAMP:20080410T000000
SUMMARY:Logic, Language, and Reasoning Seminar, Ni
 na Gierasimczuk and Jakub Szymanik
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Nina Gierasimczuk and Jakub 
 Szymanik
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20080519T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20080519T170000
LOCATION:Room P.3.27, Euclides Building, Plantage 
 Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:We discuss the thesis formulated by Hi
 ntikka (1973) that there exist natural language se
 ntences which require non-linear (non-Fregean) qua
 ntification to express their meaning. Our basic as
 sumption is that a criterion for an adequacy of a 
 meaning representation is its compatibility with s
 entence truth-conditions. Among others, it can be 
 established by observing linguistic behavior of la
 nguage users. We investigate sentences with non-Fr
 egean combinations of quantifiers similar to Hinti
 kka's examples and propose a novel alternative rea
 ding expressible by linear formulae. The interpret
 ation seems intuitively very solid. Moreover, our 
 empirical research shows that people tend to inter
 pret Hintikka's like sentences in a way consistent
  with it. We will survey discussion on Hintikka's 
 Thesis and present our experiments and results.   
  For more information, see http://staff.science.uv
 a.nl/~szymanik/LLR.html
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n      <p>\n        
 We discuss the thesis formulated by Hintikka (1973
 ) that there exist natural language sentences whic
 h require non-linear (non-Fregean) quantification 
 to express their meaning. Our basic assumption is 
 that a criterion for an adequacy of a meaning repr
 esentation is its compatibility with sentence trut
 h-conditions. Among others, it can be established 
 by observing linguistic behavior of language users
 . We investigate sentences with non-Fregean combin
 ations of quantifiers similar to Hintikka's exampl
 es and propose a novel alternative reading express
 ible by linear formulae. The interpretation seems 
 intuitively very solid. Moreover, our empirical re
 search shows that people tend to interpret Hintikk
 a's like sentences in a way consistent with it. We
  will survey discussion on Hintikka's Thesis and p
 resent our experiments and results.\n      </p>\n 
    \n      <p>\n        For more information, see 
 <a target="_blank" href="http://staff.science.uva.
 nl/~szymanik/LLR.html">http://staff.science.uva.nl
 /~szymanik/LLR.html</a>\n      </p>\n    
URL:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/2306/19-
 May-2008-Logic-Language-and-Reasoning-Seminar-Nina
 -Gierasimczuk-and-Jakub-Szymanik
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