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The UCLA Linguistics Department proudly sponsors a wide range of research talks. Our flagship series is the Linguistics Colloquium, which includes distinguished visiting speakers and is addressed to a general audience of linguists. Specialist talks cover a variety of areas, and are most often given by in-house speakers.
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| Colloquium: Anna Szabolcsi: "Word-less compositionality: case studies in quantification" |
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Friday, February 24, 2012, 11:00AM - 1:00PM
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| In the past decade different lines of research have converged on the claim that there is no demarcation line in grammar corresponding to word boundaries, i.e. that morphology and syntax are the same thing. From this I conclude that compositional semantics cannot stop at the level of phonological words. The more traditional approach does not shy away from postulating fairly complex semantics for words, but does not strive to link the ingredients systematically to morpho-syntactic components of those words. The talk will consider recent results concerning proportional, universal, and existential quantifier words, as well as some new questions that they raise. |
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Location : PUB AFF 2250 |
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