BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T230658Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240522T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240522T113000 SUMMARY:Polysemy and Roots: Wide vs. Narrow Fetching UID:20260409T072202Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Niels Henrik Abels vei 36\, \, Oslo\, Norway\, 0313 DESCRIPTION:

On Pietroski&rsquo\;s (2018) model lexical items are not assigned semantic values (worldly entities) but encode instructions to \;fetch \;and \;build \;concepts from memory addresses that potentially contain a number of concepts. We shall view this model as a blueprint for how to understand polysemy\, and shall fill it in with a \;narrow \;individuation of fetch\, which best captures Pietroski&rsquo\;s intention. By these lights\, the &lsquo\;meaning&rsquo\; of a lexical item is an instruction to take \;some \;concept or other from an address\, without any concept being necessarily delivered\; that is\, fetch targets an address rather than whatever is at the address. Thus\, the address itself becomes akin to a root concept on the model of a lexical root. A \;wide \;individuation of fetch\, which we suspect is how Pietroski&rsquo\;s model is naturally viewed from a traditionalist optic\, amounts to fetch always delivering a concept for a lexical item viewed in isolation of any syntactic structure. Wide fetching\, as it were\, \;does \;occur\, in the sense that concepts at addresses are delivered\, but which concept is fetched is a function of stages of syntactic construction in which the given lexical item sits. In this sense\, the meaning of a lexical item cannot be an instance of wide fetching. Consideration of polysemy will bear out this conclusion. So\, we think the polysemy/copredication challenge can be met by a non-truth-conditional model.

ORGANIZER;CN=Nicholas Allott;CN=Terje Lohndal;CN=Ingrid Lossius Falkum: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR