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There has been a considerable amount of work done in formal semantics and philosophy of language, specifically, regarding the logical systems they have produced. However, much of the progress has been made without the consideration of empirical findings from other neighboring fields, such as neurolinguistics, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics. This paper defends Event Calculus, adapted for natural language by Michiel van Lambalgen and Fritz Hamm, for it is a system whose theoretical and philosophical foundations have been empirically supported by the sciences that provides a distinguished place for tense and aspect, and is expressive enough to model sentences and statements which are of current interest in formal semantics, such as conditional statements.

This talk will give a brief introduction to the system of Event calculus, originally developed with A.I., and how, when adapted for natural language, can capture the nuances of natural language. These nuances include, Vendler's "Aktionsarten" and tense distinction such as the difference between, 'will' and 'be going to.'

Info

Day: 2019-05-23
Start time: 14:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: 103 / S81
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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• An Introduction to Event Calculus as a Model for Tense in Natural Language

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