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SUMMARY: Philosophy colloquium: David Liebesman and Ofra Magidor on polysem
 y
DESCRIPTION: David Liebesman (U. of Calgary)  and Ofra Magidor (Oxford) wil
 l give an in-person colloquium in the philosophy department titled “Polysem
 y and Observations in Linguistics”. The abstract and poster are below.   Po
 lysemy and Observations in Linguistics In linguistics it is standard to dis
 tinguish between two types of ambiguity: homonymy\, where (roughly) a term 
 has two […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>David Liebesman (U. of Calgary)  and Ofra 
 Magidor (Oxford) will give an in-person colloquium in the philosophy depart
 ment titled “Polysemy and Observations in Linguistics”. The abstract and po
 ster are below.</p><p> </p><hr /><p><strong>Polysemy and Observations in Li
 nguistics</strong></p><p>In linguistics it is standard to distinguish betwe
 en two types of ambiguity: homonymy\, where (roughly) a term has two comple
 tely unrelated senses (e.g. ‘ball’ as used for a spherical play object\, an
 d ‘ball’ as used for a party)\; and polysemy\, where (roughly) a word has t
 wo closely related senses (e.g. ‘lunch’ as used for used for a an event tak
 ing place midday and for a portion of food eaten at midday). The literature
  on polysemy reports a wide-range of alleged observations regarding the con
 cept based on both straightforward intuitions of theorists\, as well as exp
 erimental data on wide-scale speaker judgements and psychological processin
 g. In this talk\, we argue that many of these observations implicitly presu
 ppose some theoretical assumptions about the phenomenon of copredication (s
 entences such as ‘Lunch was delicious\, but took hours’). Indeed\, they imp
 licitly rely on false theoretical assumptions. After explaining what copred
 ication is and our own preferred theoretical account of the phenomenon\, we
  return to show how all this bears on the range of linguistic observations 
 about polysemy.</p><p> </p><p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-19
 670" src="https://ling.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2024/10/
 image005-1-300x167.png" alt="" width="300" height="167" /></p>
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