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W(h)ither semantics?(!)| old_uid | 15732 |
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| title | W(h)ither semantics?(!) |
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| start_date | 2015/06/04 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Langevin |
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| summary | My starting point is Barbara Partee’s famous paper ‘Semantics: Mathematics or Psychology?’. In that paper, Partee worried that two views of what semantics is place conflicting demands on semantics. On the one hand, there is the view Partee attributes to Chomsky and his followers on which semantics is a part of psychology. On the other hand, there is the view that Partee, following Rich Thomason, attributes to Richard Montague on which semantics is a branch of mathematics. I begin by reviewing this paper and saying a few now familiar things about the points she raises. This will serve as a warm-up for the main topic of the paper, which is the question of whether a Chomskyan “internalist” approach to the study of language conflicts with the sorts of semantic theories practicing semanticists produce |
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| responsibles | Pacherie, Dokic |
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