1/31: Chris Kennedy
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Chris Kennedy
University of Chicago
“A Neo-Fregean Semantics of Number Words”
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:30-6:30pm
Cobb 106
Abstract:
In this talk, I present and motivate a fully semantic and compositional analysis of scalar (“at least” vs. “at most” vs. “exactly”) readings of sentences containing numerals, in which number words introduce second-order properties of properties of quantities, and scalar readings arise through scopal interactions between number words and other constituents, rather than through implicature or pragmatic enrichment.