Quantificational Structures and Compositionality
Quantificational Structures and Compositionality
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量化结构和组合性
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-017-2817-1_17
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
B. Partee
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作者：
B. Partee
在最近的跨语言量化和语义类型学项目（与Emmon Bach和Angelika Kratzer合作）的过程中，越来越明显的是，语言之间以及语言内部结构之间存在着显著差异，在某种程度上，各种句子或结构的语义解释，其解释在某种意义上是“量化的”，是由表面语法明确地表示或编码的。不考虑包含多个量词的句子中的范围歧义问题，只关注具有某种单一量词操作符的句子，我们可以找到两到三种不同类型的例子。在某些情况下，语义结构似乎完全由显性短语结构决定；在某些情况下，它似乎是由短语结构和主题和/或焦点结构的组合决定的，在某些情况下，它可能是由这两种结构共同决定的，并可能导致句子在语言上模棱两可（除非有人能找到理由称它们为非特定或不确定的），如果有的话，只有通过非语言上下文才能消除歧义。
In the course of a recent project on cross-linguistic quantification and semantic typology (in collaboration with Emmon Bach and Angelika Kratzer), it has become increasingly apparent that there are significant differences between languages, and also between constructions within languages, in the extent to which the semantic interpretation of various kinds of sentences or constructions whose interpretation is in some sense “quantificational” is explicitly signaled by or encoded in the surface syntax. Leaving aside issues concerning scope ambiguity in sentences containing multiple quantifiers and concentrating on sentences with a single quantificational operator of some sort, one can find examples of two or three different kinds. In some cases, the semantic structure seems to be completely determined by the overt phrase structure; in some cases it seems to be determined by a combination of phrase structure and topic and/or focus structures, and in some cases it may be underdetermined by both of those and may result in sentences that are linguistically ambiguous (unless one can find arguments for calling them nonspecific or indeterminate instead) and only disambiguated, if at all, by the non-linguistic context.