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<p><br clear="all"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;border-collapse: collapse;"><div>Barbara Partee et Vladimir Borschev seront invités à l'institut Jean Nicod du 22 au 24 mars prochain. Vous trouverez ci-dessous les informations pour leur présentation (en anglais) le lundi 22 mars de 12h à 13h.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Quand: Lundi 22 mars - 12h-13h</div><div>Où: Institut Jean Nicod, 29 rue d'Ulm, Salle Paul Lapie</div><div><br></div><div>Titre:</div><div>The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Measure and Container Constructions</div>
<div> <br>Barbara H. Partee<br>Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst and Russian State Univ. for the Humanities, Moscow<br><br>Vladimir Borschev<br>VINITI - Russian Academy of Sciences, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br>
<br>Abstract:<br><p>There is a distinction between sortal and relational nouns, but nouns can be coerced to cross the border, and some nouns like <i>teacher</i>have robust meanings of both kinds. The line between relational and functional nouns is even less sharp, and one can question the robustness of the separate category of functional nouns. </p>
<p><span></span>But there are some constructions specific to functional nouns. We first briefly describe two interesting “minor” constructions: (i) parameter-headed NPs as modifiers in English, as in <i>a dress that length</i> <span>(Partee 1986)</span>, and (ii) a construction in Russian known as “genitive with obligatory third term” <span>(Borschev and Knorina 1990)</span>, similar to English <i>person of medium height, *person of height.</i> </p>
<p><span></span>The main topic of the talk is a third family of constructions in Russian involving container nouns, commonly known as the “genitive of measure” construction(<wbr>s), illustrated by <i>stakan moloka </i>‘glass of milk’, involving a quantity of substance contained in a container, earlier studied in <span>(Borschev and Partee 2001, 2004)</span>. <i>Stakan moloka </i>may refer to the quantity of milk or to both the milk and the glass (Pustejovsky’<wbr>s “dotted type”); <i>stakan</i> has also developed a measure reading analogous to <i>litr</i> ‘liter’, and some readings in between the concrete container reading and the measure reading. We investigate the semantics and ontology of the different readings of such functional “container-nouns” and the constructions they occur in. On our current analysis, building on work of Landman and Rothstein, the role of the function-noun ends up being quite different in these different constructions. We include some observations on the relation between linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of the “natural language metaphysics of containers”.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Borschev, V.B., and Knorina, L.V. 1990. Tipy realij i ix jazykovoe vosprijatie [Types of entities and their perception in language]. In <i>Language of Logic and Logic of Language</i>, ed. V.V. Ivanov, 106-134. Moscow: Akademija Nauk SSSR.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2001. Genitive modifiers, sorts, and metonymy. <i>Nordic Journal of Linguistics</i> 24:140-160.<span> </span><a href="http://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/genitive_modifiers.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">http://people.<wbr>umass.edu/<wbr>partee/docs/<wbr>genitive_<wbr>modifiers.<wbr>pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Borschev, Vladimir, and Partee, Barbara H. 2004. Genitives, types, and sorts: The Russian genitive of measure.<a href="http://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/B&P_PossWkshp04.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">http://people.<wbr>umass.edu/<wbr>partee/docs/<wbr>B&P_PossWkshp04.<wbr>pdf</a> <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Partee, Barbara H. 1986. Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles. <a href="https://udrive.oit.umass.edu/partee/Partee86_NPInterp.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">https://udrive.<wbr>oit.umass.<wbr>edu/partee/<wbr>Partee86_<wbr>NPInterp.<wbr>pdf</a> <span> </span></span></p>
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</p></div></span>-- <br>Benjamin SPECTOR<br><br>Institut Jean-Nicod<br>CNRS - EHESS - ENS<br>Ecole Normale Supérieure<br>Pavillon Jardin<br>29 rue d'Ulm<br>75005 Paris<br>France<br><br>Webpage: <a href="http://lumiere.ens.fr/~bspector/" target="_blank">http://lumiere.<wbr>ens.fr/~bspector<wbr>/</a><br>
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