Yoad Winter

Yoad Winter is a linguist working on formal, computational and experimental semantics. He is chair of Computational Semantics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Language Sciences of Utrecht University. Winter has been PI of the Drum Languages project (NWO Free Competition grant), ROCKY project (ERC Advanced Grant) and of the NWO VICI project "Between Logic and Common Sense". He serves in numerous editorial boards. His books and articles have appeared in many international forums of formal linguistics, including MIT Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Springer.

The project

Title: The Natural Meaning of Collective Terms

"Together with colleagues at Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP), Institut Jean Nicod (IJN), and Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF-CNRS), the project will explore meanings of collective terms in different languages, including French, Breton and Welsh, based on the results of my recent ERC Advanced project at Utrecht University. The research involve different methods from experimental cognitive science, socio-linguistics and practices of language revitalization."

Hosting institution: Institut Jean Nicod - École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Selective Bibliography

• Winter, Y. (2023): Word classes in formal semantics. In E. van Lier, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes, pp. 137–159, Oxford University Press.
• Kruitwagen, I., J. A. Hampton, Y. Winter, and J. Zwarts (2022): Alternate Categorization: a Formal-Conceptual Semantics of Reciprocal Alternations. In Degano et al., editors, Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 188–193, 2022.
• Winter, Y. (2022): Mixed comparatives and the count-to-mass mapping. In Bilbiie et al., editors, Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14, pp. 309–338, 2022.
• Winter, Y. (2022): On Partee's Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles. In McNally & Szabo, editors, A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics -- Volume 100 of Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, pp. 367–385, Springer, 2022
• Winter, Y. and L. McPherson (2022), editors: Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music, Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2022.