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SUMMARY: Philosophy Colloquium – Prof. David Liebesman (University of Calga
 ry) & Prof. Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:   Title: ‘Polysemy and Observations in Linguistics’ Abstract: 
 In linguistics it is standard to distinguish between two types of ambiguity
 : homonymy\, where (roughly) a term has two completely unrelated senses (e.
 g. ‘ball’ as used for a spherical play object\, and ‘ball’ as used for a pa
 rty)\; and polysemy\, where (roughly) a word has two closely […]
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 p> </p><p><strong>Title: ‘Polysemy and Observations in Linguistics’</strong
 ></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p><p>In linguistics it is standard to d
 istinguish between two types of ambiguity: homonymy\, where (roughly) a ter
 m has two completely unrelated senses (e.g. ‘ball’ as used for a spherical 
 play object\, and ‘ball’ as used for a party)\; and polysemy\, where (rough
 ly) a word has two closely related senses (e.g. ‘lunch’ as used for used fo
 r a an event taking place midday and for a portion of food eaten at midday)
 . The literature on polysemy reports a wide-range of alleged observations r
 egarding the concept based on both straightforward intuitions of theorists\
 , as well as experimental data on wide-scale speaker judgements and psychol
 ogical processing.</p><p>In this talk\, we argue that many of these observa
 tions implicitly presuppose some theoretical assumptions about the phenomen
 on of copredication (sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious\, but took hour
 s’). Indeed\, they implicitly rely on false theoretical assumptions. After 
 explaining what copredication is and our own preferred theoretical account 
 of the phenomenon\, we return to show how all this bears on the range of li
 nguistic observations about polysemy.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bio:</strong></
 p><ul><li>David Liebesman\, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics at the 
 University of Calgary</li><li>Ofra Magidor\, Waynflete Professor of Metaphy
 sical Philosophy at the University of Oxford</li></ul>
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