Quantifying into Question Acts
Quantifying into Question Acts
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量化为问题行为
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1999
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M. Krifka
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作者：
M. Krifka
在疑问句中量化的NP可能导致NP量化到疑问句中的解释。每位客人都带了什么菜？可以理解为：“对于每一位客人x：x带来了什么菜？'.回顾以往的方法，试图捕捉这种量化正式或解释它走后，有人认为，这样的阅读涉及量化到言语行为。由于言语行为的代数比布尔代数更受限制-它只包含合取，不包含析取或否定-因此预测只有全称量词可以范围超出疑问或其他言语行为。这种方法扩展到间接的问题，这要么是嵌入式的言语行为或胁迫表示真实的答案，这取决于嵌入动词;在后一种情况下，一个布尔结构的结果，我们发现广泛的非全称量词的读数。
Quantified NPs in questions may lead to an interpretation in which the NP quantifies into the question. Which dish did every guest bring? can be understood as: 'For every guest x: which dish did x bring?'. After a review of previous approaches that tried to capture this quantification formally or to explain it away, it is argued that such readings involve quantification into speech acts. As the algebra of speech acts is more limited than a Boolean algebra – it only contains conjunction, not disjunction or negation – it is predicted that only universal quantifiers can scope out of questions or other speech acts. The approach is extended to indirect questions, which either are embedded speech acts or coerced to denote the true answers, depending on the embedding verb; in the latter case a Boolean structure results, and we find wide-scope readings of non-universal quantifiers.