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160173 PS Mereotopology (2024S)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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- Anmeldung von Di 06.02.2024 08:00 bis Di 27.02.2024 23:59
- Abmeldung bis So 31.03.2024 23:59
Details
max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Montag 15.04. 14:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 7 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
- Mittwoch 17.04. 15:00 - 19:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 22.04. 14:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 7 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
- Dienstag 23.04. 16:00 - 20:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Donnerstag 25.04. 15:00 - 19:30 Seminarraum 7 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Final test: 12 points in total
Short oral presentation on a selected topic: 8 points in total
Three short assignments: 6 points in total (2 points for each assignment)
Active engagement in class discussions: 4 points in total
Short oral presentation on a selected topic: 8 points in total
Three short assignments: 6 points in total (2 points for each assignment)
Active engagement in class discussions: 4 points in total
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Minimum requirements
Presence in the seminar (two absences are tolerated).
Assessment criteria
1 → 27–30 points
2 → 24–26 points
3 → 21–23 points
4 → 18–20 points
5 → 0–17 points
Presence in the seminar (two absences are tolerated).
Assessment criteria
1 → 27–30 points
2 → 24–26 points
3 → 21–23 points
4 → 18–20 points
5 → 0–17 points
Prüfungsstoff
Final test, short oral presentation, three short assignments and engagement in class discussions on the topics examined in the course, i.e., part-whole structures, unstructured and structured parthood, mereology and mereotopology.
Literatur
Bach, Emmon. 1986. The algebra of events. Linguistics and Philosophy 9(1). 5–16.
Casati, Roberto & Achille C. Varzi. 1999. Parts and places: The structures of spatial representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Champollion, Lucas. 2017. Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Champollion, Lucas & Manfred Krifka. 2016. Mereology. In Maria Aloni & Paul Dekker (eds.), Cambridge handbook of formal semantics, 369–388. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grimm, Scott. 2012. Number and individuation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University. (Doctoral dissertation).
Grimm, Scott. 2018. Grammatical number and the scale of individuation. Language 94(3). 527–574.
Grimm, Scott & Mojmír Dočekal. 2021. Counting aggregates, groups and kinds: Countability from the perspective of a morphologically complex language. In Hana Filip (ed.), Countability in natural language, 85–102. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Henderson, Robert. 2017. Swarms: Spatiotemporal grouping across domains. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 35(1). 161–203.
Igel, Moritz. 2021. Part-whole-modifiers and the *-operator. In Luisa Martí, Hazel Pearson & Yasutada Sudo (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 430–447. London: University College London & Queen Mary University of London.
Krifka, Manfred. 1989. Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics. In Renate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem & Peter van Emde Boas (eds.), Semantics and contextual expression, 75–115. Dordrecht: Foris.
Landman, Fred. 2000. Events and plurality: The Jerusalem lectures. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Lasersohn, Peter. 1995. Plurality, conjunction and events. Boston, MA: Kluwer.
Lima, Suzi. 2014. All notional mass nouns are count nouns in Yudja. In Todd Snider, Sarah D’Antonio & Mia Weigand (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24, 534–554. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Link, Godehard. 1983. The logical analysis of plural and mass nouns: A lattice-theoretical approach. In Rainer Bäuerle, Christoph Schwarze & Arnim von Stechow (eds.), Meaning, use, and interpretation of language, 302–323. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Moltmann, Friederike. 1997. Parts and wholes in semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nouwen, Rick. 2016. Plurality. In Maria Aloni & Paul Dekker (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of formal semantics, 267–284. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Simons, Peter M. 1987. Parts: A study in ontology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Scontras, Gregory. 2014. The semantics of measurement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. (Doctoral dissertation).
Varzi, Achille C. 2007. Spatial reasoning and ontology: Parts, wholes, and locations. In Marco Aiello, Ian E. Pratt-Hartmann & Johan van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of spatial logics, 945–1038. Berlin: Springer.
Varzi, Achille C. 2016. Mereology. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2021a. Slavic derived collective nouns as spatial and social clusters. In Mojmír Dočekal & Marcin Wągiel (eds.), Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, 175–205. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2021b. Subatomic quantification. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2023. Acts, occasions and multiplicatives: A mereotopological account. In Juhyae Kim, Burak Öney, Yao Zhang & Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, 276–297. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Wągiel, Marcin & Natalia Shlikhutka. 2023. Clustering and declustering things: The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian. In Juhyae Kim, Burak Öney, Yao Zhang & Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, 194–214. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Casati, Roberto & Achille C. Varzi. 1999. Parts and places: The structures of spatial representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Champollion, Lucas. 2017. Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Champollion, Lucas & Manfred Krifka. 2016. Mereology. In Maria Aloni & Paul Dekker (eds.), Cambridge handbook of formal semantics, 369–388. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grimm, Scott. 2012. Number and individuation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University. (Doctoral dissertation).
Grimm, Scott. 2018. Grammatical number and the scale of individuation. Language 94(3). 527–574.
Grimm, Scott & Mojmír Dočekal. 2021. Counting aggregates, groups and kinds: Countability from the perspective of a morphologically complex language. In Hana Filip (ed.), Countability in natural language, 85–102. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Henderson, Robert. 2017. Swarms: Spatiotemporal grouping across domains. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 35(1). 161–203.
Igel, Moritz. 2021. Part-whole-modifiers and the *-operator. In Luisa Martí, Hazel Pearson & Yasutada Sudo (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 430–447. London: University College London & Queen Mary University of London.
Krifka, Manfred. 1989. Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics. In Renate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem & Peter van Emde Boas (eds.), Semantics and contextual expression, 75–115. Dordrecht: Foris.
Landman, Fred. 2000. Events and plurality: The Jerusalem lectures. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Lasersohn, Peter. 1995. Plurality, conjunction and events. Boston, MA: Kluwer.
Lima, Suzi. 2014. All notional mass nouns are count nouns in Yudja. In Todd Snider, Sarah D’Antonio & Mia Weigand (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24, 534–554. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
Link, Godehard. 1983. The logical analysis of plural and mass nouns: A lattice-theoretical approach. In Rainer Bäuerle, Christoph Schwarze & Arnim von Stechow (eds.), Meaning, use, and interpretation of language, 302–323. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Moltmann, Friederike. 1997. Parts and wholes in semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nouwen, Rick. 2016. Plurality. In Maria Aloni & Paul Dekker (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of formal semantics, 267–284. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Simons, Peter M. 1987. Parts: A study in ontology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Scontras, Gregory. 2014. The semantics of measurement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. (Doctoral dissertation).
Varzi, Achille C. 2007. Spatial reasoning and ontology: Parts, wholes, and locations. In Marco Aiello, Ian E. Pratt-Hartmann & Johan van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of spatial logics, 945–1038. Berlin: Springer.
Varzi, Achille C. 2016. Mereology. In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2021a. Slavic derived collective nouns as spatial and social clusters. In Mojmír Dočekal & Marcin Wągiel (eds.), Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, 175–205. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2021b. Subatomic quantification. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Wągiel, Marcin. 2023. Acts, occasions and multiplicatives: A mereotopological account. In Juhyae Kim, Burak Öney, Yao Zhang & Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, 276–297. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Wągiel, Marcin & Natalia Shlikhutka. 2023. Clustering and declustering things: The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian. In Juhyae Kim, Burak Öney, Yao Zhang & Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao (eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 33, 194–214. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
BA-M12
MA1-M3-2 (PS aus Grammatiktheorie und kognitiver Sprachwissenschaft)
MA1-M3-2 (PS aus Grammatiktheorie und kognitiver Sprachwissenschaft)
Letzte Änderung: Mi 14.02.2024 10:26
The main aim of the course is to introduce formal theories of part-whole structures employed in contemporary formal semantics. We will discuss empirical evidence for the relevance of part-whole structures in natural language. We will introduce two formal theories of such structures, specifically mereology and mereotopology, i.e., mereology extended with a topological component. We will discuss key conceptual notions and ways in which they can be formally represented and encoded in grammar.
Content
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. We 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, we will explore how (1) differs semantically from (2) and consider why (3) is felicitous, whereas (4) is not.
(1) Half the flag is red.
(2) A/One half of the flag is red.
(3) I raked the leaves into a pile.
(4) #I raked the foliage into a pile.
We 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 2012; see Casati & Varzi 1999). 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 configuration (e.g., the typical referents of the granular noun ‘gravel’).
Finally, we will consider unstructured and structured part-whole configurations in more abstract domains including eventualities and roles.
Methods
The methods used include lecture, oral presentations, reading assigned materials and class discussion.