We are happy to announce a talk by Bartosz Więckowski (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: November 6, 2025
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm c.t.
Title: Some reflections on double negatives and un-Adj antonyms
Abstract:
Our understanding of the logical behaviour of double negatives like ’not unhappy‘ depends on our understanding of antonymic pairs like ‚happy’/’unhappy‘. In the literature, their members are either construed as contraries (e.g., Horn 2017) or contradictories (e.g., Krifka 2007). In my talk, I shall suggest, building on previous work on subatomic negation and negative predication, how, on both ways of understanding un-Adj antonyms, the logic and semantics of double negatives can be approached from a proof-theoretic perspective.