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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Processing quantification |
| Lecturer(s): | Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen) |
| Type: | Introductory Course |
| Section: | Logic and Language |
| Week: | Second | | Time: | 11.00-12.30 (Slot 2) |
| Webpage: | http://www.kun.nl/phil/tfl/bart/
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| Reader: | Course will not have a reader | | Room: | A1 |
Description Recently there is been a rising interest in the application of logical
and semantical methods in such areas of cognitive psychology as
reasoning, language acquisition, and discourse processing. The aim of
this course is to discuss some of these developments, with focus on
the interaction between semantical and cognitive aspects of
quantification. I want to illustrate how cognitive psychology can
benefit from results obtained in the area of semantics/pragmatics, and
vice versa.
Prerequisites: None, although some familiarity with predicate logic
will be helpful.
Topics:
1. Background: generalised quantifiers and anaphora
2. Quantifiers in language acquisition
3. Reasoning with quantifiers
4. Implicatures and the semantics and pragmatics of numerals
5. Donkey anaphora in quantified sentences
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© 2003, 2004 LORIA, Carlos Areces. |
2004-07-07
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