Situation pronouns in determiner phrases
Situation pronouns in determiner phrases
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限定词短语中的情境代词
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2012
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F. Schwarz
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F. Schwarz
人们普遍认为，自然语言具有对时间、世界或情景等内涵实体进行量化的表达能力。对此进行建模的标准方法假设存在相应类型的未发音但以语法表示的变量。然而，关于这些变量的确切句法位置，并不是说得那么多。同时，最近的研究也突显了一些问题，因为情景代词的释义选项似乎受到了各种限制。本文主要研究限定词短语中的情况代词，认为它们是作为(某些)限定词的论元引入的。另一方面，动词谓词被假定为不与情景代词组合。对它们的解释的各种限制被证明是从基于该观点发展起来的语义系统中脱颖而出的。对这种说法的进一步支持来自对驴子句的情景语义分析，以及关于名词性谓词的时间解释的数据。事实证明，它能够以统一的方式说明所有这些数据，这使它有别于以前的提议。文章最后对进一步的扩展进行了展望，包括对基于情况代词的量词领域限制的说明。
It is commonly argued that natural language has the expressive power of quantifying over intensional entities, such as times, worlds, or situations. A standard way of modelling this assumes that there are unpronounced but syntactically represented variables of the corresponding type. Not all that much as has been said, however, about the exact syntactic location of these variables. Meanwhile, recent work has highlighted a number of problems that arise because the interpretive options for situation pronouns seem to be subject to various restrictions. This paper is primarily concerned with situation pronouns inside of determiner phrases, arguing that they are introduced as arguments of (certain) determiners. Verbal predicates, on the other hand, are assumed to not combine with a situation pronoun. The various restrictions on their interpretation are shown to fall out from the semantic system that is developed based on that view. Further support for such an account comes from situation semantic analyses of donkey sentences as well as data on the temporal interpretation of nominal predicates. Its ability to account for this full range of data in a unified manner is shown to set it apart from previous proposals. The paper closes with an outlook on further extensions, including an account of quantifier domain restriction based on situation pronouns.