2004年6月25日: Uli Sauerland

とき：

2004年6月25日（金）4:30pm

ところ：

東京大学教養学部／総合文化研究科（駒場Ｉキャンパス）10号館3階会議室

講演者：

Uli Sauerland (University of Connecticut)

タイトル：

Binding in Language: A New Approach

概要：

Mainstream work on the semantics of binding has adopted the Tarskian
assumptions in (1) on the basis of an assignment dependent recursive
interpretation function.

(1) a. Assignments are sequences (functions from indices to objects).
    b. Bound elements are indices.

I argue that (1) should be replaced with (2):

(2) a. Assignment are sets of objects.
    b. Bound elements are definite descriptions.

Initial evidence for the proposal comes from phenomena that argue
that traces and pronouns are definite descriptions, in particular
Sauerland 2000 and 2004.  Then I show further evidence from agreement
licensing and restrictions on sloppy interpretations in ellipsis.

References:

Sauerland, Uli (2000). "The content of pronouns: Evidence from
focus." Proceedings of SALT 10.
Sauerland, Uli (2004). "The interpretation of traces." Natural
Lang. Semantics.

2004年6月25日: Uli Sauerland, Binding in Language: A New Approach