[MaFLa] invitation to a talk on `Semantic Explanations` by Zoltán Gendler Szabó - FRIDAY!!!!!!! 23 March, 2018, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103

[Krisztina Biber]

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University)
on
Semantic Explanations

FRIDAY!!!!!!! 23 March, 2018, 3.30 PM, Nádor 15, Room 103


ABSTRACT

This paper is a defense of substantive explanations in semantics. I begin by offering a diagnosis of why the view that semantic theories are merely descriptive has been widely accepted in philosophy and I suggest that these grounds are not compelling. Then I argue that semantic explanations don't have a uniform direction - upwards or downwards the syntactic tree. There is an explanatory division within the lexicon: the meanings of content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) are semantically fundamental, while the meanings of function words (auxiliaries, connectives, copulas, derivational morphemes, determiners, expletives, prepositions, etc.) are derivative.



Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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