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

本项目的长期目标是整合两种重要的语义学研究方法：与逻辑和语言哲学相联系的模型论形式语义学传统和强调成分句法-语义学界面的词汇语义学，其根源是基于词汇和认知的语义学和语义范畴化工作。该项目还旨在通过建立在莫斯科词义学派的基础上，将俄罗斯和美国的传统联系起来。在词汇和语法如何在语义解释中相互作用的研究中，构成性的静态观点已经让位于一种动态的观点，即将给定的词汇意义简单地组合成更大的整体，而动态的观点认为合成性是在被组合的部分的意义转换潜力的背景下被看待的。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类别结构的性质和作用，以及它们在与语境信息交互作用下对意义转移和胁迫的影响。该项目的实质重点是关于用关系名词和非关系名词(约翰的兄弟，约翰的团队)解释天才和相关结构的原则方面的争议问题。这些构式引发了关于构成语义学、词汇语义学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.