Specimens: "most of" generic NPs in a contextually flexible type theory
RETORÉ, Christian
Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique [LaBRI]
Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language [SIGNES]
Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique [LaBRI]
Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language [SIGNES]
RETORÉ, Christian
Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique [LaBRI]
Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language [SIGNES]
< Reduce
Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique [LaBRI]
Linguistic signs, grammar and meaning: computational logic for natural language [SIGNES]
Language
en
Communication dans un congrès
This item was published in
Genius III, 2011-12-05, Paris. 2011-12-05
English Abstract
This paper proposes to compute the meanings associated to sentences with generic NPs correspond- ing to the most of generalized quantifier. We call these generics specimens and they resemble stereotypes or pro- totypes in ...Read more >
This paper proposes to compute the meanings associated to sentences with generic NPs correspond- ing to the most of generalized quantifier. We call these generics specimens and they resemble stereotypes or pro- totypes in lexical semantics. The meanings are viewed as logical formulae that can be thereafter interpreted in your favorite models. We rather depart from the dominant Fregean single untyped universe and go for type theory with hints from Hilbert epsilon calculus and from medieval philosophy. Our type theoretic analysis bears some resemblance with on going work in lexical semantics. Our model also applies to classical examples involving a class (or a generic element of this class) which is pro- vided by the context. An outcome of this study is that, in the minimalism-contextualism debate, if one adopts a type theoretical view, terms encode the purely semantic meaning component while their typing is pragmatically determined.Read less <
English Keywords
type theory
quantification
second order logic
Origin
Hal imported