Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics: Genitives in English and Russian

9905748合作伙伴摘要 本项目的长期目标是将两种重要的方法整合到语义学的研究中：与语言的逻辑和哲学联系在一起的模型理论形式语义学传统，强调组合语法语义学接口，以及词汇语义学，其根源在于基于词汇和认知的语义学和语义分类工作。 该项目还旨在通过建立在词汇语义学的莫斯科学派的基础上，将俄罗斯和美国的传统联系起来。 在研究词汇和语法如何在语义解释中相互作用的过程中，组合性的静态观点（即把给定的词汇意义简单地组合成更大的整体）已经让位于动态观点，在动态观点中，组合性被看作是被组合的部分的意义转移潜力。 本项目的基本问题包括理解词汇意义的细粒度类型结构和分类结构的性质和作用，以及它们与语境信息的相互作用对意义转移和重复的影响。 该项目的实质性重点是有争议的问题有关的原则ofinterpretation的属名和相关结构的关系和非关系名词（约翰的兄弟，约翰的团队）。这些构式引发了关于组合语义、词汇语义和语境之间的分工和相互作用的争论。

9905748ParteeAbstract The long-range goal of the present project is to integrate two important approaches to the study of semantics: the model-theoretic formal semantics tradition with ties to logic andphilosophy of language and an emphasis on a compositional syntax-semantics interface, andlexical semantics with its roots in lexically and cognitively based work on semantics and semantic categorization. This project also aims to link Russian and American traditions by building on the Moscow school of lexical semantics. In the study of how lexicon and grammar interact in semantic interpretation, the static view of compositionality as the simple putting together of given lexical meanings into larger wholes has been giving way to a dynamic view in which compositionality is seen in the context of the meaning-shifting potential of the parts that are being combined. Essential issues for the present project include understanding the nature and roles of fine-grained type structure and sort structure of lexical meanings and their effects, in interaction with contextual information, on meaning shifts and coercions. The project's substantive focus is on controversial problems concerning the principles ofinterpretation of genitives and related constructions with relational and non-relational nouns(John's brother, John's team). These constructions have sparked debates concerning the division of labor and interactions among compositional semantics, lexical semantics, and context.