Adverbs and events
Adverbs and events
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副词和事件
作者：
Max J. Cresswell
分析英语形式化表征中的状语结构有两种基本方法。一种是遵循Richard Montague1，并将它们视为与not相同的句法类别的基本运算符。另一种是遵循Donald Davidson 3，并在待修饰动词中的额外论元位置的帮助下，在谓词演算中表示它们。蒙塔古的方法需要一种内涵语言，因此似乎没有希望将他的分析融入戴维森的纲领。然而，将戴维森的分析纳入内涵语言是可能的。在本文中，我指出为什么这可能是可取的，然后展示如何以满足[12]中对普通英语和代表形式语言之间的关系所施加的相当严格的条件的方式来做到这一点。
There are two basic approaches to the analysis of adverbial constructions in formalized representations of English. One is to follow Richard Montague1 and treat them as sentential operators of the same syntactical category as not.2 The other is to follow Donald Davidson3 and represent them in the predicate calculus with the aid of an extra argument place in the verb to be modified. Montague’s approach requires an intensional language and so there seems no hope of fitting his analysis into Davidson’s programme. It is, however, possible to incorporate Davidson’s analysis into an intensional language. In this paper I indicate why this may be desirable and then shew how it can be done in a way which satisfies the rather strict conditions imposed in [12] on the relation between ordinary English and the representing formal language.