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How do events factor into our mental linguistics? How can we adjust our logic to capture different sentence permutations? In this week's episode, we take a look at event semantics: what problems they're meant to solve, how they help us limit time and place in our sentences, and what evidence we have that events are real.
This is Topic #92!
This week's tag language: Tswana!
Related videos:
Meaning Predicated on Logic: Predicate Logic - youtu.be/al5SJSbIyvM
Split Personality: The Syntax of VP Shells - youtu.be/lY1X2BnjmNI
Relatively Close: The Syntax of Relative Clauses - youtu.be/Bra5gExyPbY
Last episode:
Bending the Truth: The Linguistics of Propaganda and Censorship - youtu.be/X82SFZ_eXOU
Other of our semantics videos:
Downward Spiral: Negative Polarity Items - youtu.be/vd8cjyxHQdw
Topic of Focus: Information Structure - youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI
Operation Relevance: Relevance Theory - youtu.be/yRv1agt776c
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on different kinds of events, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-92
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Sources:
Davidson's original paper on event semantics: http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/Ling7800/Davidson.pdf
A useful handout that gets into the entailment patterns: http://people.umass.edu/partee/RGGU_2005/RGGU05Lec12.pdf
A handy and short summary of the topic: http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jFhNWM2M/eventbasedsemantics.pdf
Looking forward to next time!
How do events factor into our mental linguistics? How can we adjust our logic to capture different sentence permutations? In this week's episode, we take a look at event semantics: what problems they're meant to solve, how they help us limit time and place in our sentences, and what evidence we have that events are real.
This is Topic #92!
This week's tag language: Tswana!
Related videos:
Meaning Predicated on Logic: Predicate Logic - youtu.be/al5SJSbIyvM
Split Personality: The Syntax of VP Shells - youtu.be/lY1X2BnjmNI
Relatively Close: The Syntax of Relative Clauses - youtu.be/Bra5gExyPbY
Last episode:
Bending the Truth: The Linguistics of Propaganda and Censorship - youtu.be/X82SFZ_eXOU
Other of our semantics videos:
Downward Spiral: Negative Polarity Items - youtu.be/vd8cjyxHQdw
Topic of Focus: Information Structure - youtu.be/gZ6o8yFvJYI
Operation Relevance: Relevance Theory - youtu.be/yRv1agt776c
Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on different kinds of events, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-92
Find us on all the social media worlds:
Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace
And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.storenvy.com
We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally.
Sources:
Davidson's original paper on event semantics: http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/Ling7800/Davidson.pdf
A useful handout that gets into the entailment patterns: http://people.umass.edu/partee/RGGU_2005/RGGU05Lec12.pdf
A handy and short summary of the topic: http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jFhNWM2M/eventbasedsemantics.pdf
Looking forward to next time!
