2005年5月27日: Chris Tancredi

とき：: 2005年5月27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）18号館4階コラボレーションルーム3
講演者：: Chris Tancredi（東京大学）
タイトル：: Predicate-Triggered Group Formation
概要：: In this talk I examine the interaction of downward entailing plural quantifiers and the predicates "gather" in English and "atsumaru" in Japanese. I will argue that the interaction between these expressions requires two extensions to Landman's (2000) analysis of plural interpretation. Landman allows plurals to be analyzed as either groups or as i-sums, but his analysis only generates distributed readings for 1-place predicates applying to an i-sum via pluralization of the predicate. I will show that "gather" and "atsumaru" require a different interpretation mechanism that does not involve such pluralization. I will then show that while these predicates take i-sums as arguments, they generate groups from these i-sums that can be employed by other predicates conjoined with "gather"/"atsumaru". I propose a dynamic model of interpretation which allows "gather"/"atsumaru" to take i-sums as input and effectively form this i-sum into a group as part of its output.

2005年5月27日: Chris Tancredi, Predicate-Triggered Group Formation