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Meaning Meeting - Ellen Lau / Perspectives on kind subjects

Professor Ellen Lau, seen in profile sitting in an audience after a lunch talk, asking a question, with palms up at shoulder height in an interrogative posture

Meaning Meeting - Ellen Lau / Perspectives on kind subjects

Linguistics | Philosophy Wednesday, September 18, 2024 9:30 am - 10:45 am Marie Mount Hall, 1108B

September 18, Ellen joins the Meaning Meeting to discuss her recent thoughts on the mental representation of kinds and noun meanings.

Says Ellen: "I won't be presenting original work. Instead I'll walk through a brief, incomplete, and biased review of the modern literature on kind-subject sentences like 'Dodos are extinct' and 'Computers were invented in the 20th century' and my understanding of how standard set-theoretic approaches have handled them. Long-term I'm interested in how much these cases can help in motivating a sortal approach to noun meaning for psycho/neuro models of semantics; but for this meeting I'd more narrowly just like to get a sense of what people think about the phenomenon and the classic treatments of it.

Add to Calendar 09/18/24 09:30:00 09/18/24 10:45:00 America/New_York Meaning Meeting - Ellen Lau / Perspectives on kind subjects

September 18, Ellen joins the Meaning Meeting to discuss her recent thoughts on the mental representation of kinds and noun meanings.

Says Ellen: "I won't be presenting original work. Instead I'll walk through a brief, incomplete, and biased review of the modern literature on kind-subject sentences like 'Dodos are extinct' and 'Computers were invented in the 20th century' and my understanding of how standard set-theoretic approaches have handled them. Long-term I'm interested in how much these cases can help in motivating a sortal approach to noun meaning for psycho/neuro models of semantics; but for this meeting I'd more narrowly just like to get a sense of what people think about the phenomenon and the classic treatments of it.

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