On the semantics of when-clauses
On the semantics of when-clauses
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关于when从句的语义
DOI：
10.3765/salt.v20i0.2566
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
Ivano Caponigro
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作者：
D. Hall;Ivano Caponigro
本文主要研究由when（时态when-子句）引入的非疑问句时态嵌入子句及其语义解释和语法语义映射。我们的目标是提供一个完整的时间when-从句的组成说明，说明他们的形式身份与疑问句和他们的意义上的差异。主要思想是时间when-从句在语法和语义上都是自由的关系从句。先前的句法分析（Grimshaw 1977, Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978, a.o）为这一主张的句法方面提供了强有力的支持。另一方面，我们所知道的时间when-子句的语义建议（Bonomi 1997, Vikner 2004, Moens and Steedman 1988）忽略了这些句法结论，并主张对句法/语义映射有问题的分析。这些语义分析在处理这些分句的解释性方面也不够充分。我们从when-子句的分布和解释特性以及矩阵子句与when-子句的时间对齐中提供证据，以支持我们的分析。
This paper is about non-interrogative temporal embedded clauses introduced by when (temporal when-clauses), their semantic interpretation and their syntax/semantics mapping. Our goal is to provide a fully compositional account of temporal when-clauses that accounts for their formal identity with interrogative clauses and their difference in meaning. The main idea is that temporal when-clauses are syntactically and semantically free relative clauses. Previous syntactic analyses (Grimshaw 1977, Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978, a.o) have provided robust support to the syntactic side of this claim. On the other hand, the semantic proposals for temporal when-clauses that we are aware of (Bonomi 1997, Vikner 2004, Moens and Steedman 1988) have ignored these syntactic conclusions and have argued for analyses that are problematic for the syntactic/semantic mapping. These semantic analyses are also not fully adequate in handling the interpretative properties of these clauses. We provide evidence from the distributional and interpretive properties of when-clauses as well as from the temporal alignment of the matrix clause with the when-clause that supports our analysis.