Cross-linguistic semantics: methodological advances

Description

In this course, we present and discuss the methodologies that have been used in cross-linguistic semantics over the past two decades. One of the fundamental issues we are concerned with is the balance between data and theory: how much should we allow a theory based on one (set of) language(s) to guide our analysis of another (set of) language(s)? Up till recently, there was no other way to build a theory of language than by moving language by language and verifying/falsifying hypotheses based on previously studied languages. We argue that Translation Mining ' a new take on parallel corpus research ' allows us to proceed in a more data-driven fashion and to question the status quo in how we make theoretical progress in cross-linguistic semantics.

Period	15 Aug 2022 → 19 Aug 2022
Event title	European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
Event type	Conference
Conference number	2022
Location	Galway, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International