The semantics of partial control
The semantics of partial control
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部分控制的语义
DOI：
10.1007/s11049-015-9313-9
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
H. Pearson
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作者：
H. Pearson
在部分控制配置中，控制器的表示适当地包括在不定式的理解主题中。本文提出了一个成分语义部分控制的第一个这样的建议，我们知道。我们表明，一个帐户的决定是否一个给定的谓词许可证部分控制自然遵循的分析，没有额外的句法假设。该建议的核心是这样一个想法，即部分控制谓词是态度动词，因此，量化了一个特别细粒度的类型的模态基础-所谓的中心世界。然而，与态度报告的传统语义不同，这些谓词的词汇条目要求控制补语所表达的属性不适用于这个模态基础的坐标，而是适用于与这些坐标有系统关系的世界、时间和个体论元。这使得追溯到朗道（2000）的观察变得有意义，即控制谓词许可部分控制的能力与其时间属性密切相关。
In a partial control configuration the denotation of the controller is properly included in the understood subject of the infinitive. This paper proposes a compositional semantics for partial control—the first such proposal that we are aware of. We show that an account of what determines whether a given predicate licenses partial control follows naturally from the analysis without additional syntactic assumptions. At the heart of the proposal lies the idea that partial control predicates are attitude verbs and as such, quantify over a particularly fine-grained type of modal base—so-called centred worlds. Unlike in traditional semantics for attitude reports, however, the lexical entry of these predicates requires that the property expressed by the control complement is applied not to the coordinates of this modal base, but rather to world, time and individual arguments that stand in a systematic relationship to those coordinates. This makes sense of the observation, going back to Landau (2000), that the ability of a control predicate to license partial control is intimately connected to its temporal properties.