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Forests and Trees: the Formal Semantics of Collective Categorization

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Project "ROCKY" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Organization address address: HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CS website: www.uu.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Netherlands [NL]
Total cost	2˙494˙278 €
EC max contribution	2˙494˙278 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2016-ADG
Funding Scheme	ERC-ADG
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-11-01 to 2022-10-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Organization address address: HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CS website: www.uu.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (UTRECHT)	coordinator	2˙342˙875.00
2	CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Organization address address: NORTHAMPTON SQUARE city: LONDON postcode: EC1V 0HB website: www.city.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	151˙403.00

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Project objective

Languages have various ways of referring to collections like families, herds and forests. The grammatical properties of collective expressions critically determine how we understand them. The sentences “this forest is old” and “these trees are old” categorize an arboreal collection using a concept (“old”), while conveying different meanings. This semantic difference correlates with the difference in grammatical number between the sentences: singular vs. plural. Such effects of collective categorization in language are crucial for understanding the connections between grammar and the mind, as well as for artificial intelligence. However, currently little is known about the mechanisms underlying our linguistic ability to conceptualize collections. This project aims to develop a novel linguistic theory of this ability, applied to a wide range of empirical phenomena and interdisciplinary challenges in computational semantics and comparative linguistics, benefiting from the recent synergy between linguistics and the psychology of concepts. The idea is that when classifying a collection, speakers rely on two inferential principles with mental concepts: (i) geometric inferences: a forest is considered “far away” if all of its trees are far; (ii) symmetric inferences: two trees are “similar” if each of them is similar to the other. The leading hypothesis is that uniform interactions between these inferential principles and the grammar of collective expressions account for collective categorization in language. This hypothesis is explored in three work packages, each of which develops the semantic theory and evaluates it on a different interdisciplinary domain: human interaction with geographic information systems, behavioral linguistic experiments, and comparative linguistics. Together, the three components of the project are expected to lead to a theoretical breakthrough in semantic theory and to enrich its interdisciplinary connections with neighboring disciplines.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Yoad Winter Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations published pages: 1, ISSN: 1937-8912, DOI: 10.3765/sp.11.1	Semantics and Pragmatics 11/1	2019-07-19
2018	Eva B. Poortman, Marijn E. Struiksma, Nir Kerem, Naama Friedmann, Yoad Winter Reciprocal expressions and the Maximal Typicality Hypothesis published pages: 18, ISSN: 2397-1835, DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.180	Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3/1	2019-07-19

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