International Research Fellow Awards: The Interpretation of Indefinites as a Window on the Interpretive Procedure

9802869 Percus国际研究员奖计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。该奖项将支持Orin J.Percus博士与Gennaro Chierchia博士在意大利米兰大学进行为期24个月的博士后研究访问。珀克斯博士的研究关注的是语言学中的普遍问题，即语言如何编码信息，以及句子的结构如何贡献信息。现代语言学的一个重要结果是，我们使用语言的认知系统使用了许多不同类型的离散表征。一种表示法表明单词如何连接在一起形成更大的单位；另一种表示法编码我们所认为的意义。许多人认为存在将表示编码结构映射到表示编码含义的过程。珀库斯博士的研究目的是提高我们对这一过程的理解。他的东道主基尔基亚博士在句法和语义方面都很称职。他是一位领先的正式语义学家，在什么使语言可学以及语言变异如何受到限制的问题上走在了前列。***

9802869 Percus The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twentyfour months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twenty-four-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Orin J. Percus to work with Dr. Gennaro Chierchia at the Universita degli Studi di Milano in Italy. Dr. Percus' research is concerned with the general problem in linguistics of how language encodes information, and how a sentence's structure contributes information. An important result of modern linguistics is that the cognitive systems underlying our use of language employ a number of different kinds of discrete representations. One kind of representation indicates how words join together to form larger units; another encodes what we think of as meaning. Many assume that there is a procedure that maps representation encoding structure to representation encoding meaning. The goal of Dr. Percus' research is to improve our understanding of this procedure. His host, Dr. Chierchia, is competent in both syntax and semantics. He is a leading formal semanticist, who is at the forefront of the issues of what makes language learnable and how linguistic variation is constrained. ***