Structurally-defined alternatives
Structurally-defined alternatives
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DOI：
10.1007/s10988-008-9029-y
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Katzir, Roni
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作者：
Katzir, Roni
为了避免对称性问题，标量含义依赖于替代。我认为这些替代品的结构敏感的特征：结构的替代品是所有那些结构，最多是作为原来的一个复杂的。文献中有人声称，复杂性与含义无关，相关条件是单调性的语义概念。我提供了新的数据，提出了挑战，使用单调性和支持结构敏感的定义。我表明，什么似乎是一个问题的复杂性的方法是克服一旦一个适当的复杂性的概念被采用，并在仔细检查，在单调性的论点，原来是一个论点，反对它，并在复杂性的方法。
Scalar implicatures depend on alternatives in order to avoid the symmetry problem. I argue for a structure-sensitive characterization of these alternatives: the alternatives for a structure are all those structures that are at most as complex as the original one. There have been claims in the literature that complexity is irrelevant for implicatures and that the relevant condition is the semantic notion of monotonicity. I provide new data that pose a challenge to the use of monotonicity and that support the structure-sensitive definition. I show that what appeared to be a problem for the complexity approach is overcome once an appropriate notion of complexity is adopted, and that upon closer inspection, the argument in favor of monotonicity turns out to be an argument against it and in favor of the complexity approach.