A Semantic Analysis of the English Genitive.: Interaction of Lexical and Formal Semantics
A Semantic Analysis of the English Genitive.: Interaction of Lexical and Formal Semantics
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英语属格的语义分析：词汇和形式语义的相互作用
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2002
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Per Anker Jensen
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Carl Vikner;Per Anker Jensen
一些早期的名词前所有格的语义处理假设了像the girl's这样的所有格NP的两种句法类型，一种与关系名词如sister结合，另一种与非关系名词如car结合。在前一种情况下，属格关系由关系中心名词提供，在后一种情况下，关系的来源由话语语境提供。我们的分析一致地假设属格NP只有一种句法类型，即，使属格NP只能与关系名词联合收割机结合的词。在本质上非关系的中心名词的情况下，如女孩的车，我们假设，属格NP强制转移的中心名词的意义，使其成为关系。为了确定所进行的意义转移的种类，我们求助于中心名词的词条的感受质结构。这种分析的结果是扩大了词汇决定的解释范围，相应地缩小了语境决定的语用范围。
Some earlier treatments of the semantics of the prenominal genitive assume two syntactic types for genitive NPs like the girl's, one which combines with relational nouns like sister, and another that combines with non-relational nouns like car. In the former case the genitive relation is provided by the relational head noun, in the latter the source of the relation is taken to be provided by the utterance context. Our analysis uniformly assumes only one syntactic type for genitive NPs, viz., one that forces a genitive NP to combine only with relational nouns. In cases with inherently non-relational head nouns, such as the girl's car, we hypothesize that the genitive NP coerces a shift of the meaning of the head noun so that it becomes relational. To determine the sort of meaning shift which is carried out, we appeal to the qualia structure of the lexical entry for the head noun. A consequence of this analysis is an extension of the area of lexically determined interpretations and a corresponding reduction of the context-determined, pragmatic area.