Talk by Janek Guerrini (Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium
We are happy to announce a talk by Janek Guerrini (Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium.
The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301.
If you wish to participate virtually via Zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche for the link.
Date: June 12, 2025
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm c.t.
Title: Exhaustivity in maps
Abstract:
Casati & Varzi (1999) propose a semantics for maps in which color patches work like predicates applying to map regions. For instance, the water marker covering a point on a map amounts to the claim “there is water in the real-world location referent of the map point”. Rescorla (2009) argued that the very treatment of maps as predicative is misguided because as soon as a marker appears on a map, its absence from a coordinate indicates that the corresponding location lacks the property denoted by this marker. According to Rescorla, predication in language is closer to Tarskian predicates, in that the truth of the sentence “Fido is a labrador” does not depend on whether...