Semantics Research Group (Tokyo/Hybrid) 2025/9/26

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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9月10日（水）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 Wednesday, Sept 10th. Make sure to include your name and affiliation. (Chris Tancredi,  cdtan...@gmail.com )

Date: Friday, September 26
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: Chris Barker, New York University Linguistics
Title: The dynamics of common ground
Abstract: 

Dynamic theories of meaning have had considerable success, for example, explaining presuppositional behavior and donkey anaphora. On dynamic theories, sentences denote context change potentials (CCPs): functions mapping an input context into an output context that has been updated with the content of the sentence. Utterance contexts generally include the common ground, i.e., the set of all propositions that are mutually believed/known/accepted by the discourse participants. But CCPs do not constrain belief (or any other attitude). So the output of a CCP is not a common ground, and it follows that dynamic theories do not in fact update context. What, then, are dynamic theories actually doing?