The Epsilon Operator and E-Type Pronouns
The Epsilon Operator and E-Type Pronouns
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Epsilon 运算符和 E 型代词
DOI：
10.1075/cilt.114.07egl
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
K. Heusinger
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作者：
U. Egli;K. Heusinger
本文试图对有定名词短语和无定名词短语进行统一的描写。因此，我们假设定冠词the和不定冠词a共享一种解释的一种语义表示。我们的出发点是罗素在他1905年的著名文章《论指称》中发展的摹状词的经典理论。“在第一部分中，我们介绍了构成我们考虑的基础的基本假设或直觉。罗素的分析将被证明是过于局限性，以处理自然语言现象。对直觉的阐述将比通常的情况更全面，因为我们认为，对于为自然语言描述而设计的形式主义，我们关于语言的基本思想至少与形式模型中的正确性和优雅性一样重要。此外，很明显，其他一些描述方法实际上是失败的，因为它们没有充分注意自然语言的基本特征。在第二节中，选择功能，即，希尔伯特建议的ESTA操作员，将被引入和修改，以充分捕捉的内容，明确和不明确的描述。它的性质将与第1节中提出的基本思想相一致。这将包括更仔细地研究集合的良序和描述对情况的依赖性。此外，我们将介绍简单的主题化和述位化规则，允许指定描述或从描述中提取谓词。这些规则在很大程度上是由自然语言的实际使用来指导的。它
In this paper we attempt to provide a homogeneous description of defi nite and indefinite noun phrases. We therefore assume one semantic represen tation for one interpretation that the definite article the and the indefinite article a share. Our starting point is the classical theory of descriptions as developed by Russell in his famous article of 1905," On Denoting." In the first section we introduce the basic assumptions or intuitions that form the foundation for our considerations. Russell's analysis will be shown to be too restrictive to deal with natural language phenomena. The exposition of the intuitions will be more comprehensive than is usually the case, as we think that for a formalism devised for natural language description our basic ideas about language are at least as important as correctness and elegance in the formal model. Furthermore, it will become apparent that some other approaches to descriptions actually fail because they do not pay sufficient attention to basic characteristics of natural language. In the second section a choice function, namely, the epsilon operator suggested by Hilbert, will be introduced and modified to capture the content of definite and indefinite descriptions adequately. Its properties will be com pared with the basic ideas set forth in section 1. This will include a closer look at the well-ordering of sets and the dependency of descriptions on situations. In addition, we will introduce simple rules of thematization and rhematization that allow to specify the description or to extract a predicate from a descrip tion. These rules are largely guided by the actual use of natural language. It