Master Sergey Minor disputerer for ph.d. -graden i humanoria og samfunnsvitenskap, studieretning språkvitenskap, og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
"Dependent Plurals and the Semantics of Multiplicity"
Prøveforelesningen starter kl. 10.15 samme dag og sted.
Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:
The main focus of this thesis is the concept of multiplicity, and its representation in the semantics of natural language. Human languages possess a variety of means to convey the notion of a multitude
of objects being involved in a particular situation, e.g. number marking on nouns, numerals such as ‘three’ and ‘five’, quantificational items such as ‘each’ and ‘all’. The aim of the thesis is to develop a formal semantic framework to account for the interaction between these classes of linguistic items, based primarily on elicited and freely occurring data from English. The general picture that emerges from this investigation is that natural language semantics involves three distinct levels at which the notion of multiplicity can be represented. This approach allows us to explain the semantic contrast
between singular quantifiers, e.g. 'each' and 'every', and plural quantifiers, e.g. 'all' and 'most', on the one hand, and between the plural number feature and numerals, on the other.
Veiledere
Hovedveileder professor Gillian Ramchand, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø.
Medveileder professor Knut Tarald Taraldsen, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø
Bedømmelseskomiteen
Postdoctoral researcher PhD Jakub Dotlačil,University of Groningen, The Nederlands (førsteopponent)
Professor PhD Donka F. Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (andreopponent)
Professor PhD Peter Svenonius, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø (leder av komiteen)
Disputasleder
Professor Antonio Fàbregas, institutt for språk og kultur, Fakultet for humanoria, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø