Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics

语言语义学中的命题主义

• 批准号: 370858788
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas E. Zimmermann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Linguistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Reinhart Koselleck Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/370858788?language=en
• 关键词: Propositionalism; Linguistic; Semantics

This project investigates the grounds for a fundamental yet rarely addressed schism in the semantic analysis of natural language. This schism regards the question of what kinds of expressions may denote information content: while propositionalist approaches link linguistic content exclusively to truth-evaluable, clausal meaning, more liberal intensionalist approaches assume that information content need not be truth-evaluable and may in principle be connected with all types of expressions. The project aims to critically examine the propositionalist hypothesis that meaning composition can be accounted for entirely in terms of reference and propositional content. The project will bring together expertise from linguistic semantics, formal logic, and philosophy of language, focussing on the prospects of propositionalism in theoretical linguistics. We expect that, depending on its exact formulation, the propositionalist hypothesis will turn out to be either trivial for formal reasons or inadequate on empirical grounds. In anticipation of this result, the project will also explore alternatives to propositionalism and their explanatory resources beyond linguistic content.

该项目调查了自然语言语义分析中基本但很少被解决的分裂的基础。这种分裂涉及哪些类型的表达可以表示信息内容的问题：虽然命题主义方法将语言内容专门与可评价真值的分句意义联系起来，但更自由的内涵主义方法假设信息内容不需要是可评价真值的，并且原则上可以与所有类型的表达相联系。该项目旨在批判性地检验命题主义假设，即意义构成可以完全根据指称和命题内容来解释。该项目将汇集语言语义学、形式逻辑和语言哲学的专业知识，重点关注命题主义在理论语言学中的前景。我们预计，根据其精确的表述，命题主义假设要么因形式原因而变得微不足道，要么因经验原因而变得不足。预期这一结果，该项目还将探索命题主义的替代方案及其语言内容之外的解释资源。