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SUMMARY:The pragmatics of count-mass polysemy
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LOCATION:Niels Henrik Abels vei 36\, \, Oslo\, Norway\, 0313
DESCRIPTION:<p>In this talk I discuss a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g.\, shoot a&nbsp\;<em>rabbit</em>/eat&nbsp\;<em>rabbit</em>/wear&nbsp\;<em>rabbit</em>). Traditional computational semantic approaches have analysed such sense alternations as being generated by an inventory of specialized lexical inference rules. In this talk I discuss some evidence that the linguistic component provided by count-mass syntax leaves a more underspecified semantic output than is usually acknowledged by rule-based theories\, and argue in favor of an analysis which treats count-mass syntax as a procedural constraint on NP referents\, combined with a single\, relevance-guided lexical pragmatic mechanism that can cover the same ground as lexical rules\, as well as those cases in which rule-based accounts need to appeal to pragmatics.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicholas Allott;CN=Terje Lohndal;CN=Ingrid Lossius Falkum:
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