A constructional approach to clefts
A constructional approach to clefts
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裂缝的构造方法
DOI：
10.1515/ling.2000.022
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发表时间：
2000
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1.1
通讯作者：
K. Davidse
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作者：
K. Davidse
在这篇文章中，我将论证唇裂与非唇裂的区别不仅仅在于它们的信息结构。裂缝是一种独立的结构，其语法特征传达了特定的表征语义。我将重点讨论裂隙结构中两种主要的编码关系，即由矩阵子句表达的编码关系和矩阵子句的补语与关系子句之间的回指关系。我将指出，到目前为止，这些方面在文献中没有得到令人满意的描述，并将提出另一种描述。裂隙的不同矩阵子句是识别子句、存在子句和所有子句的特定子类型，它们都对其补语施加特定的量化值：它们表达了对实例的集合、枚举或基本量化的详尽说明。关系子句将这种指定、列举或基数测量的补语作为先行词，并将其合并到值-变量关系中。这样，我将认为，不同类型的裂缝，即它的裂缝，那里的裂缝，和所有格的裂缝，可以给出一个完整的语义描述。
In this article I will argue that clefts differ in more than simply their information structure from their noncleft counterparts. Clefts are constructions in their own right, whose grammatical features convey specific representational semantics. I will focus on the two main coded relations in cleft constructions, the one expressed by the matrix clause and the anaphoric relation between the complement of the matrix clause and the relative clause. I will indicate in which ways these have not been described satisfactorily in the literature so far and will propose an alternative description. The different matrix clauses of clefts are specific subtypes of identifying, existential, and possessive clauses, which all impose a specific quantificational value on their complement: they express exhaustive specification of a set, enumeration, or cardinal quantification of instances. The relative clause takes this specifying, enumerating, or cardinally measured complement as antecedent and incorporates it in a value-variable relation. In this way, I will argue, the different types of clefts, viz. it clefts, there clefts, and possessive clefts, can be given an integrated semantic description.