A SEMANTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL-LANGUAGE DETERMINERS
A SEMANTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL-LANGUAGE DETERMINERS
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DOI：
10.1007/bf00630273
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发表时间：
1986-08-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
STAVI, J
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作者：
KEENAN, EL;STAVI, J
本文的主要目标是描述英语的可能的决定性表示。我们的主要结果由第2节中的守恒定理给出。它表明，我们在第1节中考虑的广泛而多样的限定词（det）类都满足对其语义解释的非常强的约束，我们称之为保守性。这个约束加强了Barwise和库珀（1981）的万有3，而这个定理为这个唯一性提供了一个解释。在第三节中，我们讨论了几个语言动机的det子类。在两种情况下，类区分的B&C示出以启发性的方式扩展到更大的类的dets，我们考虑。在第三种情况下，不确定的dets，我们提供了一个替代的定义，我们觉得更简单，更充分。定义了两个新的类，并以此为基础提出了第二个共相。这种概括导致了我们的第二个主要结果：（不）可表达性定理，它对英语det的表达能力施加了一定的限制。
The principle goal of this paper is to characterize the possible deter miner denotations of English. Our major result is given by the Con servativity Theorem in section 2. It shows that the extensive and varied class of determiners (dets) we consider in section 1 all satisfy a very strong constraint on their semantic interpretation which we call Con servativity. The constraint strengthens Universal 3 of Barwise and Cooper (1981), and the theorem provides an explanation for the uni versal. In section 3 we discuss several linguistically motivated subclasses of dets. In two cases, classes distinguished by B&C are shown to extend in an enlightening way to the larger class of dets we consider. In a third case, the indefinite dets, we offer an alternative definition which we feel to be simpler and descriptively more adequate. Two new classes are defined in terms of which a second universal is posited. That generaliza tion leads to our second major result: the (In) effability Theorems, which place a certain constraint on the expressive power of English dets.