A New Standard of Comparison

A New Standard of Comparison
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新的比较标准

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2012
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J. Merchant
J. Merchant
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P. Alrenga;Christopher Kennedy;J. Merchant

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一系列涉及约束约束、省略和范围相互作用的复杂而众所周知的事实表明,英语比较级中标准成分(以than为首的短语)的表面位置标志着比较的范围(Gawron 1995,Bhatt and Pancheva 2004)。例如,(1)在(1a)中的“明智的”阅读和(1b)中的“不太可能的”阅读之间语义上是模糊的,在(1a)中,情态动词require出现在比较的范围内,在(1b)中,比较出现在情态的范围内。
An intricate and well-known range of facts involving binding constraints, ellipsis, and scopal interactions indicate that the surface position of the standard constituent in English comparatives (the phrase headed by than) marks the scope of comparison (Gawron 1995, Bhatt and Pancheva 2004). For example, (1) is semantically ambiguous between the “sensible” reading in (1a), in which the modal verb require occurs within the scope of the comparison, and the “unlikely” reading in (1b), in which the comparison appears within the scope of the modal.