Semantics Research Group (Tokyo/Hybrid) 2026/1/9

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意味論研究会のお知らせ

意味論研究会の会合をお知らせします。対面の場所・ズームのアクセス情報は下記の通りです。どなたでも参加できますので，多くの方の参加をお待ちしています。また、会合終了後に食事会を予定しております。ご参加希望の方はご指名と所属をご記入の上、その旨を12月25日（木）までにChris Tancrediにご連絡くださいますようお願い致します。(Chris Tancredi, cdtan...@gmail.com)

The Semantics Research Group will be having a talk as detailed below. There will also be a dinner after the talk. If you would like to participate in the dinner, please RSVP with Chris Tancredi by Thursday, Dec. 25th. Make sure to include your name and affiliation. (Chris Tancredi,  (cdtan...@gmail.com)

Date: January 9
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Keio University, Mita campus, South Annex building, 7th floor conference room
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/mita.html
Online option: https://keio-univ.zoom.us/j/82972175560?pwd=YlRuaGt0NUFWWmI1ajhrNm1vQ3ZVZz09
Speaker: Hajime Mori
Title: A Dynamic Semantic Analysis of Indefinite Interpretations in Russian Pronouns

Russian pronouns are ambiguous between definite and indefinite interpretations. When a pronoun is used indefinitely, it need not be interpreted as the same individual that satisfies its antecedent. Its number need not match either (except in cases where a singular pronoun takes a plural NP as its antecedent). Moreover, because a pronoun can receive an indefinite interpretation, it may take an antecedent that lies within the scope of negation. Although such behavior is not predicted by existing dynamic semantics or E-type approaches, Russian pronouns remain understudied in formal semantics. This paper proposes an account of these phenomena by extending Compositional DRT (Muskens, 1996) to allow indefinites to introduce discourse referents for predicates. When a pronoun is interpreted relative to an ordinary individual dref, it has a definite reading; when it is interpreted relative to a predicate dref, it receives an indefinite reading and introduces a new individual dref.

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意味論研究会の会合をお知らせします。対面の場所・ズームのアクセス情報は下記の通りです。どなたでも参加できますので，多くの方の参加をお待ちしています。また、会合終了後に食事会を予定しております。ご参加希望の方はご指名と所属をご記入の上、その旨を12月25日（木）までにChris Tancrediにご連絡くださいますようお願い致します。(Chris Tancredi, cdtan...@gmail.com)

The Semantics Research Group will be having a talk as detailed below. There will also be a dinner after the talk. If you would like to participate in the dinner, please RSVP with Chris Tancredi by Thursday, Dec. 25th. Make sure to include your name and affiliation. (Chris Tancredi,  (cdtan...@gmail.com)

Date: January 9
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Keio University, Mita campus, South Annex building, 7th floor conference room
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/mita.html
Online option: https://keio-univ.zoom.us/j/82972175560?pwd=YlRuaGt0NUFWWmI1ajhrNm1vQ3ZVZz09

Speaker: Hajime Mori & Soichiro Kinoshita