Compositional semantics and event semantics
Channel: Lucas Champollion
Date: 2014-11-25

HD recommended. 30-min split-screen talk. Relevant to semanticists and philosophers of language who would like to know the extent to which a commitment to events favors various analyses of scope-taking expressions such as quantifiers, negation and conjunction. For more, see the companion paper in Linguistics & Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-014-9162-8.

This was a talk at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (Sep 2 2014, German House, NYC). Handout at http://is.gd/gowofi. Lambda calculator at http://www.lambdacalculator.com. Companion lambda calculator file at http://is.gd/yisubi.  

Thanks to Roland Poellinger (http://logic.rforge.com/) and Kristina Liefke (http://liefke.wix.com/kristinaliefke) of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy for editing the video and making it available to me.