Cognitive Semantics and Quantities

Projektinformationen

CoSaQ

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 716230

DOI 10.3030/716230

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 7 November 2016

Startdatum 1 Februar 2017

Enddatum 31 August 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 457 063,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 457 063,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Ziel

At the heart of the multi-faceted enterprise of formal semantics lies a simple yet powerful conception of meaning based on truth-conditions: one understands a sentence if one knows under which circumstances the sentence is true. This notion has been extremely fruitful resulting in a wealth of practical applications. But to what extent can it also account for the human linguistic behavior? The past decade has seen the increasing interaction between cognitive science and formal semantics, and the emergence of the new field of experimental semantics. One of its main challenges is the traditional normative take on meaning, which makes semantic theories hard to compare with experimental data. The aim of this project is to advance experimental semantics by building cognitive semantics, that is semantics founded on cognitive representations instead of normative logical abstractions.

Numerical information plays a central role in communication. We talk about the number of students in a class, or the proportion of votes for a particular political party. In this project, I will focus on the linguistic expressions of quantities, known as quantifiers. Recent progress in the study of computational constraints on quantifier processing in natural language laid the groundwork for extending semantic theory with cognitive aspects. In parallel, cognitive science has furthered the study of non-linguistic quantity representations. This project will integrate formal models of quantifier semantics with cognitive quantity representations in order to obtain cognitive semantics of quantifiers, which is both logically precise and psychologically plausible. The theory will have significant repercussions, not only in the immediately related disciplines as semantics and psycholinguistics, but also beyond, e.g. in philosophy and in language technology.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › languages and literature › general language studies
• engineering and technology › materials engineering › colors
• humanities › languages and literature › linguistics › phonology
• social sciences › psychology › cognitive psychology
• humanities › philosophy, ethics and religion › philosophy

Schlüsselbegriffe

• quantifiers
• formal semantics
• experimental semantics
• logic
• cognitive modeling

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2016-STG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 457 063,00
• Adresse: SPUI 21 ; 1012WX Amsterdam ; Niederlande
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 457 063,00

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

Niederlande

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 457 063,00
• Adresse: SPUI 21 ; 1012WX Amsterdam
• Region: West-Nederland › Noord-Holland › Groot-Amsterdam
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 457 063,00