Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai

第66回 

東海・関西意味論研究会

  2026年5月10日 (日) 13時30分 (13:30 ~ onwards, 10th May 2026)

名古屋大学東山キャンパス全学教育棟 (北棟) 406号室  (Nagoya University, Higashiyama  Campas, B4-① Building, Room 406 )/Zoom

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/extra/map/index.html/ (map) 地図

• 建物北側の出入り口（手動扉）から会場にお入りください / Please use the north entrance of the building (manual door) to enter the venue.

研究発表 (Lecture)：13:30~15:00

Tim Jantarungsee  (University College London)

Classifier Restrictions as Relevance-Based Inferences

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Sortal classifiers are standardly taken to restrict the domain of quantification, with such restrictions being previously analysed as either presuppositional or as conventional implicatures. Drawing on novel empirical data, we show that classifier induced restrictions do not pattern with other forms of domain restriction (e.g., that contributed by sortal predicates), particularly under existential negation. We argue that this divergence cannot be captured by existing accounts, especially those used for gender presuppositions, co-suppositions and ‘standard' conventional implicatures. We therefore propose novel trivalent truth conditions comprising a third truth value denoting ‘conversational relevance’, and introduce new formal machinery in the form of an alternative bridging principle that predicts the contextual felicity conditions of these expressions. This machinery is then extended to more complex expressions, and we examine how the system integrates with a standard compositional framework.

研究発表 (Lecture)：15:15~ onwards

Yasutada Sudo (University College London)

Presupposition Triggering via Idleness Avoidance (collaboration with Nathan Klinedinst)

Universal quantifiers, as well as other `strong' quantifiers, across human languages commonly come with existence presuppositions that their restrictors are non-empty. We propose that this is not a coincidence, and these existence presuppositions arise due to a principle that bans "idleness": Roughly, a phrase is idle if it is substitutable salva veritate with any other phrase of the same type. We point out that idleness avoidance in its simplest form makes certain unwelcome predictions, but they are circumvented if the idea is made sensitive to considerations like compositional order and overall triviality.