Rugsėjo 24 d., penktadienį, 15.00 val. 314B aud. kviečiame į seminarą Pas skandinavus. Ateinančio seminaro tema: Ignorance inferences and roundness effects with modified numerals, pranešėjas – Alexandre Cremers.
Pranešimo santrauka: Modified numerals like "at least four" or "more than three" are notorious in the formal semantics/pragmatics literature for a number of puzzles they pose to the theory of implicatures. While 'more than 5' and 'at least 6' should intuitively be synonymous, 'at least' obligatorily conveys ignorance (hence the weirdness of "I have at least three kids") but 'more than' doesn't (in a context with a salient threshold, I have more than three kids" is acceptable). Conversely, 'at least' can combine with any numeral, but 'more than' shows a strong preference for round or contextually salient numerals ("Mary can drink, she's more than 23" is deviant when the relevant threshold is 18 or 20).
I will first present experimental results that clarify the ignorance implicatures of 'at least' and 'more than', and then present a new account of modified numerals based on a very simple semantics and a new pragmatics formalized in Optimality Theory.
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