Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity
Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity
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广义连词和类型歧义
DOI：
10.1002/9780470758335.ch14
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
Mats Rooth
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作者：
B. Partee;Mats Rooth
众所周知，在英语和许多其他语言中，几乎每一个主要范畴都可以与and and or连在一起。我们在这里要解决的问题是，我们是否可以给and和or赋予一个单一的含义，以涵盖它们在所有范畴中的用法，为了使这个问题更精确，防止很快得到否定的回答，我们需要区分and的中心用法和一些特殊用法。非正式地说，我们所指的任何类别的连接词的中心用法和与连接词的中心用法，都与连续连接词和普通逻辑连接词的意义有关（尽管由于与句子中其他逻辑成分的相互作用，在英语连体句中可能并不总是存在一种自然的释义）。在（1）中给出了和与各种范畴一起使用的中心用法的例子;在（2）中给出了我们将不讨论的一些特殊用法。（似乎没有任何特殊用途需要排除;如果有的话，我们不处理它们。
It is well-known that in English and in many other languages, virtually every major category can be conjoined with and and or. The question we address here is whether we can give a single meaning for and and a single meaning for or that covers their uses across the full range of categories.In order to make the question more precise and forestall a quick negative answer, we need to distinguish the central use of and from a number of special uses. Informally characterized, what we mean by the central use of and with conjuncts of any category is related to the sentential conjunction and with the meaning of ordinary logical conjunction (although because of interaction with other logical elements in the sentence, there may not always exist a natural paraphrase in terms of conjoined English sentences.) Examples of the central use of and with various categories are given in (1); some special uses which we will not treat are given in (2).(There do not appear to be any special uses of or which need to be excluded; if there are, we are not treating them.)