Unifying Japanese relative clauses: copy-chains and context-sensitivity
Unifying Japanese relative clauses: copy-chains and context-sensitivity
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统一日语关系从句：复制链和上下文敏感性
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2016
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Isaac Gould
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M. Erlewine;Isaac Gould
我们提供了一种新的、统一的方法来推导和解释日语中中心语外部、中心语内部以及迄今为止尚未充分研究的双中心语关系从句。我们的建议是出于新的数据解释这些不同形式的关系从句与数量的头部，在不同的情况下。中心语内部关系分句和双中心语关系分句被解释为定述词，其数量中心语被解释在表层关系分句内部的位置。我们表明，复杂的模式可能的解释，以及观察到的说话人之间的变化的形状，通过解释明确的描述，使用最大的信息量语义和一个简单的假设上下文信息的作用，我们称之为显着集限制。句法上，我们提出了一种新的DP抬头关系从句的派生，利用复制理论的运动和关系从句的后期合并。这使得中心语内部和双中心语相对化策略与熟悉的中心语外部形式统一起来，否则这是不可能的。我们相信这种方法也适用于其他语言中的抬头关系从句，包括英语。我们的建议避免了以前的抬头推导的一些复杂性，而是利用LF的独立动机的复制链解析机制。这篇文章是特殊集合的一部分：内部引导的关系子句
We offer a new, unified approach to the derivation and interpretation of head-external, head-internal, and heretofore understudied doubly-headed relative clauses in Japanese. Our proposal is motivated by new data on the interpretation of these different forms of relative clauses with quantificational heads, in different contexts. Head-internal and doubly-headed relative clauses are interpreted as definite descriptions with their quantificational head interpreted in their surface, relative-clause-internal positions. We show that the complex patterns of possible interpretations, as well as the shape of observed inter-speaker variation, are derived by interpreting definite descriptions using a maximal informativeness semantics and a simple assumption regarding the role of contextual information, which we call the Salient Sets Restriction . Syntactically, we propose a novel DP head-raising derivation for relative clauses that takes advantage of the Copy Theory of movement and the late-merger of relative clauses. This allows for the unification of head-internal and doubly-headed relativization strategies with the familiar head-external form, which would otherwise not be possible. We believe this approach is suitable for head-raising relative clauses in other languages as well, including English. Our proposal avoids some complications of previous head-raising derivations, instead taking advantage of independently motivated mechanisms of copy-chain resolution at LF. This article is part of the special collection: Internally-headed Relative Clauses