Lucas Champollion
Biographic Data
| ID | 6390485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Champollion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Champollion |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMPOLLION L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4544-5113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rational Speech Acts meet exhaustification
We derive inferences of free choice disjunctions by combining grammatical models based on covert exhaustification (Fox 2007) with Gricean reasoning as implemented in the game-theoretic Rational Speech Acts framework (Frank & Goodman 2012). Our approach synthesizes insights from both frameworks and overcomes their respective limitations. The account leverages semantic uncertainty and ambiguity introduced by covert exhaustivity operators, enabling …
Truthmaker Semantics and Natural Language Semantics
Truthmaker semantics is a non‐classical logical framework that has recently garnered significant interest in philosophy, logic, and natural language semantics. It redefines the propositional connectives and gives rise to more fine‐grained entailment relations than classical logic. In its model theory, truth is not determined with respect to possible worlds, but with respect to truthmakers, such as states or events. Unlike possible worlds, these t…
Negation and modality in unilateral truthmaker semantics
Negative Events and Compositional Semantics
Motivated by intuitive parallels between event descriptions with and without linguistic negation, we develop a formalization of negative events. We propose that verbal negation denotes a function ${\textit{Neg}}$, which sends any set of events $P$ to a set ${\textit{Neg}}(P)$ constrained by a principle ensuring that any event in ${\textit{Neg}}(P)$ occurs if and only if no event in $P$ does. This allows us to construe the events in ${\textit{Neg}…
Donkeys under discussion
Donkey sentences have existential and universal readings, but they are not often perceived as ambiguous. We extend the pragmatic theory of non-maximality in plural definites by Križ (2016) to explain how hearers use Questions under Discussion to fix the interpretation of donkey sentences in context. We propose that the denotations of such sentences involve truth-value gaps — in certain scenarios the sentences are neither true nor false — and demo…
Distributivity in Formal Semantics
Distributivity in natural language occurs in sentences such as John and Mary (each) took a deep breath, when a predicate that is combined with a plurality-denoting expression is understood as holding of each of the members of that plurality. Language provides ways to express distributivity overtly, with words such as English each, but also covertly, when no one word can be regarded as contributing it. Both overt and covert distributivity occur in…
Parts of a Whole
Why can I tell you that I ran for five minutes but not that I * ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why can you say that there are five pounds of books in this package if it contains several books, but not * five pounds of book if it contains only one? What keeps you from using * sixty degrees of water to tell me the temperature of the water in your pool when you can use sixty inches of water to tell me its height? And what goes wrong …
Ten Men and Women Got Married Today
The word and can be used both intersectively, as in John lies and cheats , and collectively, as in John and Mary met . Research has tried to determine which one of these two meanings is basic. Focusing on coordination of nouns ( liar and cheat ), this article argues that the basic meaning of and is intersective. This theory has been successfully applied to coordination of other kinds of constituents ( Partee & Rooth 1983 ; Winter 2001 ). Certain …
Overt distributivity in algebraic event semantics
This is the second in a pair of papers that aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the semantic phenomenon of distributivity in natural language. This paper describes and explains observable cross-linguistic differences in overt distributive items in the framework of Neo-Davidsonian algebraic event semantics. The previous paper, Champollion 2016, postulated two covert distributivity operators, D and Part, in the grammar, even though the seman…
Covert distributivity in algebraic event semantics
This is the first in a pair of papers that aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the semantic phenomenon of distributivity in natural language. This paper investigates and formalizes different sources of covert distributivity. Apart from lexical distributivity effects, which are modeled by meaning postulates, phrasal distributivity is captured via two covert operators: (i) a D operator distributing over atoms only (Link 1987), and (ii) a cov…
Refining stratified reference
This is a reply to the comments by Corver, Doetjes, Link, Piñón, Schwarzschild, and Syrett on the target article in this volume, Stratified reference: The common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement . Stratified reference is designed to capture semantic oppositions involving atelicity, plurality and mass reference, extensive measure functions, distributivity, and collectivity. Following suggestions by some of the commentators, stratifi…
Stratified reference
Why can I tell you that I
Distributivity in Formal Semantics
Distributivity in natural language occurs in sentences such as John and Mary (each) took a deep breath, when a predicate that is combined with a plurality-denoting expression is understood as holding of each of the members of that plurality. Language provides ways to express distributivity overtly, with words such as English each, but also covertly, when no one word can be regarded as contributing it. Both overt and covert distributivity occur in…
Stratified reference
Why can I tell you that I
Refining stratified reference
This is a reply to the comments by Corver, Doetjes, Link, Piñón, Schwarzschild, and Syrett on the target article in this volume, Stratified reference: The common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement . Stratified reference is designed to capture semantic oppositions involving atelicity, plurality and mass reference, extensive measure functions, distributivity, and collectivity. Following suggestions by some of the commentators, stratifi…
Stratified reference
Why can I tell you that I
Ten Men and Women Got Married Today
The word and can be used both intersectively, as in John lies and cheats , and collectively, as in John and Mary met . Research has tried to determine which one of these two meanings is basic. Focusing on coordination of nouns ( liar and cheat ), this article argues that the basic meaning of and is intersective. This theory has been successfully applied to coordination of other kinds of constituents ( Partee & Rooth 1983 ; Winter 2001 ). Certain …
Overt distributivity in algebraic event semantics
This is the second in a pair of papers that aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the semantic phenomenon of distributivity in natural language. This paper describes and explains observable cross-linguistic differences in overt distributive items in the framework of Neo-Davidsonian algebraic event semantics. The previous paper, Champollion 2016, postulated two covert distributivity operators, D and Part, in the grammar, even though the seman…
Covert distributivity in algebraic event semantics
This is the first in a pair of papers that aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of the semantic phenomenon of distributivity in natural language. This paper investigates and formalizes different sources of covert distributivity. Apart from lexical distributivity effects, which are modeled by meaning postulates, phrasal distributivity is captured via two covert operators: (i) a D operator distributing over atoms only (Link 1987), and (ii) a cov…
Parts of a Whole
Why can I tell you that I ran for five minutes but not that I * ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why can you say that there are five pounds of books in this package if it contains several books, but not * five pounds of book if it contains only one? What keeps you from using * sixty degrees of water to tell me the temperature of the water in your pool when you can use sixty inches of water to tell me its height? And what goes wrong …
Distributivity in Formal Semantics
Distributivity in natural language occurs in sentences such as John and Mary (each) took a deep breath, when a predicate that is combined with a plurality-denoting expression is understood as holding of each of the members of that plurality. Language provides ways to express distributivity overtly, with words such as English each, but also covertly, when no one word can be regarded as contributing it. Both overt and covert distributivity occur in…
Donkeys under discussion
Donkey sentences have existential and universal readings, but they are not often perceived as ambiguous. We extend the pragmatic theory of non-maximality in plural definites by Križ (2016) to explain how hearers use Questions under Discussion to fix the interpretation of donkey sentences in context. We propose that the denotations of such sentences involve truth-value gaps — in certain scenarios the sentences are neither true nor false — and demo…
Negative Events and Compositional Semantics
Motivated by intuitive parallels between event descriptions with and without linguistic negation, we develop a formalization of negative events. We propose that verbal negation denotes a function ${\textit{Neg}}$, which sends any set of events $P$ to a set ${\textit{Neg}}(P)$ constrained by a principle ensuring that any event in ${\textit{Neg}}(P)$ occurs if and only if no event in $P$ does. This allows us to construe the events in ${\textit{Neg}…
Negation and modality in unilateral truthmaker semantics
Truthmaker Semantics and Natural Language Semantics
Truthmaker semantics is a non‐classical logical framework that has recently garnered significant interest in philosophy, logic, and natural language semantics. It redefines the propositional connectives and gives rise to more fine‐grained entailment relations than classical logic. In its model theory, truth is not determined with respect to possible worlds, but with respect to truthmakers, such as states or events. Unlike possible worlds, these t…
Rational Speech Acts meet exhaustification
We derive inferences of free choice disjunctions by combining grammatical models based on covert exhaustification (Fox 2007) with Gricean reasoning as implemented in the game-theoretic Rational Speech Acts framework (Frank & Goodman 2012). Our approach synthesizes insights from both frameworks and overcomes their respective limitations. The account leverages semantic uncertainty and ambiguity introduced by covert exhaustivity operators, enabling …
Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Programming language (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Distributivity (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works)