Semantics without semantic content
Semantics without semantic content
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没有语义内容的语义
DOI：
10.1111/mila.12290
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发表时间：
2020
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2
通讯作者：
Daniel W. Harris
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作者：
Daniel W. Harris
我认为，语义是一个中央访问和信息封装的输入输出系统的专有数据库的研究。这个系统的作用是编码和解码说话者所说的部分和无效证据。由于有关非语言语境的信息因此不属于语义处理的范畴，所以一个句子的语义价值不是它的内容，而是对它可以用来表达什么的部分的、可撤销的约束。我展示了如何将这篇论文转化为一个详细的组成语义理论的基础上有影响力的框架海姆和Kratzer。这种方法位于语义在一个独立的动机帐户的人类认知架构，并揭示了语义语用接口接地模块和中央系统之间的底层接口。
I argue that semantics is the study of the proprietary database of a centrally inaccessible and informationally encapsulated input–output system. This system’s role is to encode and decode partial and defeasible evidence of what speakers are saying. Since information about nonlinguistic context is therefore outside the purview of semantic processing, a sentence’s semantic value is not its content but a partial and defeasible constraint on what it can be used to say. I show how to translate this thesis into a detailed compositional-semantic theory based on the influential framework of Heim and Kratzer. This approach situates semantics within an independently motivated account of human cognitive architecture and reveals the semantics–pragmatics interface to be grounded in the underlying interface between modular and central systems.