November 27, 2024, 10:15am - 12:15pm (CET)

DISPOC, University of Siena, Aula 401, Complesso di San Niccolò
Online at: https://unisi.webex.com/meet/salvatore.pistoiareda

"Well-formedness is meaningfulness: Exploring an old idea"

Tue Trinh
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin

Abstract: The example that started modern linguistics, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously", was intended to show that well-formedness cannot be identified with meaningfulness when it comes to natural language. In this talk I explore the thesis that well-formedness is meaningfulness when it comes to natural language. Specifically, I address the question what linguists would have to say about the syntax-semantics interface in order to defend that thesis. I also consider the possible relevance of the view on language put forward by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus to this whole discussion.

CISCL Philosophy Seminars

Organizers:
Antonio Negro, Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
University of Siena

Event page:
https://philevents.org/event/show/128790

Contacts:
[email protected]

Acknowledgements:
Next Generation EU, PRIN 2022, M4/C2-CUPB53D23014610001

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
History of Linguistics
Linguistic Theories
Philosophy of Language
Syntax