The proper treatment of measuring out, telicity, and perhaps even quantification in english
The proper treatment of measuring out, telicity, and perhaps even quantification in english
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英语中对测量、精确性、甚至量化的正确处理
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1996
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R. Jackendoff
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R. Jackendoff
“量度”(Tenny 1987,1992)和“递增主位”(Dowty 1991)这两个概念被广泛引用，作为论元选择的体裁标准。然而，所有的相关数据表明，论点在决定体貌方面的作用与论点的选择没有多大关系。相反，在“测量”和“增量主题”现象中发现的论元和时间之间的关系更恰当地被视为论元的维度结构、时间间隔和它们所参与的事件之间的关系。这种关系是动词的词汇结构与语用因素相互作用的结果。这种方法自然地扩展到其他不涉及时间的情况，例如，覆盖和填充关系。我感谢James Pustejovsky、Joan Mling、Piroska Csuri和Henk Verkuyl在这个问题上进行了重要的讨论，并感谢Verkuyl、Manfred Krifka、Carol Tenny和Fritz Newmeyer对论文早期版本的详细评论。这并不是说他们支持当前的版本。这项研究部分得到了美国国家科学基金会授予布兰迪斯大学的IRI 92-13849的支持，部分得到了凯克基金会对布兰迪斯复杂系统中心的资助，部分得到了约翰·西蒙·古根海姆纪念基金会给作者的奖学金。
The notions of ‘measuring out’ (Tenny 1987, 1992) and ‘incremental theme’ (Dowty 1991) have been widely invoked as aspectual criteria involved in verbal argument selection. However, the full range of relevant data suggests that the role of arguments in determining aspectuality has little to do with argument selection. Rather, the relation between an argument and time found in ‘measuring out’ and ‘incremental theme’ phenomena is more properly viewed as a relation between the dimensional structure of the argument, the time interval, and the event in which they take part. Such a relation, here called structure-preserving binding, arises from an interaction between the lexical structure of the verb and pragmatic factors. This approach extends naturally to other situations in which time is not implicated, for example, covering and filling relations. It also extends to plurals, yielding a novel formalization of distributive quantification.I am grateful to James Pustejovsky, Joan Maling, Piroska Csuri, and Henk Verkuyl for important discussions on this topic, and to Verkuyl, Manfred Krifka, Carol Tenny, and Fritz Newmeyer for detailed remarks on earlier versions of the paper. This is not to say that they endorse the present version.This research was supported in part by NSF Grant IRI 92-13849 to Brandeis University, in part by Keck Foundation funding of the Brandeis Center for Complex Systems, and in part by a Fellowship to the author from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.