Organisator(en) | Uli Sauerland, Stephanie Solt & Chris Fermüller |
Institution(en) | ZAS Berlin, Technische Universität Wien |
Veranstaltungsbeginn | 08.12.2010, 09.00 Uhr |
Veranstaltungsende | 09.12.2010, 18.00 Uhr |
Ort | ZAS |
The exchange of numerical information plays a central role in human interaction. We talk about the number of people in a room, the weight of a bag of grain, or the proportion of the population who supports a particular candidate or proposition.
A crucial aspect of much of the quantity information we exchange is that it is approximate, vague or incomplete. Vagueness may be signaled linguistically via modifiers such as about (about 50 books) and roughly (roughly 20 people). Even without modification, seemingly precise numerical expressions may be interpreted approximately; for example, there were 100 people in the audience is typically understood to mean ‘about 100’. And most centrally, several highly frequent natural language quantifiers, such as many, few, most and a lot, are inherently vague.
The goal of the present workshop is to bring together diverse theoretical perspectives on vague quantities and vague quantifiers, from fields including linguistic semantics and pragmatics, logic (particularly fuzzy logic) and cognitive psychology.
Specific topics to be covered include:
Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers (VQ2) is funded by the European Science Foundation under the auspices of the EuroCORES Programme LogICCC, as a joint networking initiative of the following three collaborative research projects:
Wednesday, 8 December
9.30-9.45
MANFRED KRIFKA (ZAS Berlin):
Welcome and Introduction
9.45-10.15
STEPHANIE SOLT (ZAS Berlin):
Some cases of vague quantity
10.15-10.45
ALAN BALE (Concordia):
Precision, vagueness, scales and the Back-Down Phenomenon
10.45-11.15
BREAK
11.15-11.45
DENIS BONNAY (Paris Ouest):
Vagueness at all orders
11.45-12.15
PILAR DELLUNDE (UAB):
Model theory for fuzzy predicate languages
12.15-14.00
LUNCH
14.00-14.30
MARIAN KLAMER & ANTOINETTE SCHAPPER (Leiden):
Numbers and vague quantification in Alor Pantar languages: some initial observations
14.30-15.00
RASMUS BÅÅTH, ULI SAUERLAND & SVERKER SIKSTRÖM (ZAS Berlin/Lund):
Quantifier use in English and German: an online study
15.00-15.30
MARIJAN PALMOVIC & GORDANA HRZICA (U Zagreb):
Color terms and quantities: an experimental account
15.30-16.00
BREAK
16.00-16.30
CHRISTOPH ROSCHGER (Technical University Vienna):
Contextual models of vagueness and vague quantifiers
16.30-17.30
Invited Speaker:
VILÉM NOVÁK (U Ostrava):
On the theory of intermediate quantifiers
19.00
WORKSHOP DINNER
Location to be announced
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Thursday, 9 December
9.30-9.45
EVA HOOGLAND (ESF):
ESF, EUROCORES & LogICCC
9.45-10.45
Invited Speaker:
JUSTIN HALBERDA (John Hopkins U):
Approximate numbers and the meaning of "most"
10.45-11.15
BREAK
11.15-11.45
RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ (ILLC, Amsterdam):
Common ground and granularity of referring expressions
11.45-12.15
CHRIS CUMMINS (Cambridge):
Modelling the pragmatic effects of approximation
12.15-14.00
LUNCH
14.00-14.30
MARIA SPYCHALSKA (Utrecht):
Reasoning with vague quantifiers
14.30-15.00
NIKI PFEIFER, GIUSEPPE SANFILIPPO & ANGELO GILIO (LMU Munich/Palermo/Rome):
Coherent probabilistic quantification, existential import and Aristotelian syllogistics
15.00-15.30
PETR CINTULA (Acad. of Sciences, Czech Republic):
On Hajek's fuzzy quantifiers "probably" and "many"
15.30-16.00
BREAK
16.00-16.30
CHRIS FERMÜLLER (Technical University Vienna):
Is there a role for fuzzy logic in linguistics?
16.30-17.30
Invited Speaker:
JAKUB SZYMANIK (Stockholm U):
Complexity of quantifier processing