Introduction to dynamic semantics
Lecture
Date: Monday 11 November 2024
Time: 10.00 – 12.00
Location: Auditorium D7 in Södra husen
The Department of Philosophy hosts a guest lecture by Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Craige Roberts, Ohio State University. The lecture is one of several events organised in connection with this year's award of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
Welcome to an introductory lecture in dynamic semantics with Professor Emerita Craige Roberts. Her specialisation in linguistics is formal semantics and pragmatics, in particular the dynamic interaction between semantic content and context in the course of interpretation.
The lecture takes place on 11 November in Auditorium D7 in the Södra husen buidlings, at 10-12 am.
Learn more about Craige Roberts' research
About the Rolf Schock Prize
The 2024 recipients of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy are Hans Kamp (Stuttgart/Austin) and Irene Heim (MIT). They independently developed dynamic semantics around 1980. While the dominant semantics for declarative sentences focused on the ability of language to describe states of the world, dynamic semantics is concerned with describing how information about the world is updated. Kamp's and Heim's work solved problems that the older semantics had missed. Dynamic semantics has become an indispensable tool for the semantic analysis of many linguistic phenomena.
Last updated: October 21, 2024
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