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Franklin Institute Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of Formal Semantics

April 19, 2021
9:45 AM - 4:00 PM
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Featuring Barbara Partee

Recipient of the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science

Partee

 

Speakers:

 

Barbara Partee (UMass Amherst) – Personal notes on the history of formal semantics

 

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) – Language and Natural Logic: Ways in which grammar empowers our spontaneous logicality

 

Pauline Jacobson (Brown University) – Channeling Montague, Variable Free Logic(s) and more: A small puzzle with large implications

 

Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania) – Experimenting with Meaning: Some case studies in presupposition projection

 

Seth Cable (UMass Amherst) -The Remote Past, Recent Past, and Current Past of Cross-Linguistic Formal Semantic Research

 

Christopher Potts (Stanford University) – Compositionality or systematicity?

 

Local contacts: Mitch Marcus and Charles Yang

 

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Photo of Barbara Partee by Natasha Korotkova