Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
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复数谓词和最强意义假设
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10.1093/jos/18.4.333
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2001
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Yoad Winter
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Yoad Winter
Dalrymple et al.（1994,1998）的最强意义假设最初是作为往复式的解释原则提出的，本文将其扩展为复数谓词的一般原则。该原则适用于由包含原子实体的词法谓词组成的复杂谓词，并确定谓词扩展中的复数。这样一个复杂谓词的意义被认为是有真值条件的最强意义，它不与它所包含的简单谓词的词法性质相矛盾。往复的弱解释（如书是堆叠在一起的），复数谓词连接（如书是旧的和新的）和一般的“原子”分布是由一个统一的机制推导出来的，这“削弱”了强往复的基本普遍意义，布尔连接和原子实体的量化。
The Strongest Meaning Hypothesis of Dalrymple et al. (1994, 1998), which was originally proposed as a principle for the interpretation of reciprocals, is extended in this paper into a general principle of plural predication. This principle applies to complex predicates that are composed of lexical predicates that hold of atomic entities, and determines the pluralities in the extension of the predicate. The meaning of such a complex predicate is claimed to be the truth-conditionally strongest meaning that does not contradict lexical properties of the simple predicates it contains. Weak interpretations of reciprocals (as in the books are stacked on top of each other), plural predicate conjunction (e.g. the books are old and new) and 'atomic' distributivity in general are derived by a unified mechanism, which 'weakens' the basic universal meanings of strong reciprocals, boolean conjunction and quantification over atomic entities.