Studies on change predicates in the framework of the Mental Space Theory

我已经指出了含有变化谓词的句子的各种解读，并展示了产生这些解读的因素。变化谓词带来了以下三个有趣的解释歧义：(1)主题的变化：雅克(Jacques A Vieilli)。(2)通过价值变化的解释的累积解释：LE总裁a beucoup rajeuni。(3)由于某一评估标准的变化而产生的变化：Chaque Anne，Celine Desient+Facile。(1)表示发生在主语Jacques中的普通变化。(2)有一种解读，即总统已经改变，新总统比前一任更年轻。历届总统都不会变得更年轻。在所讨论的累积读数中，比较了总统角色的连续值的年龄。(3)表示主体本身没有发生的变化。作家席琳很久以前就去世了，他的工作并不是一年比一年容易。相反，说话者的阅读技能有所提高(例如，他的法语知识变得更好了，他现在获得了丰富的生活经验，更好的文学知识，等等)，正因为如此，席琳的工作似乎不那么困难。因此，实际的变化发生在说话者的能力上，而不是席琳的作品中，但这种变化被表达为似乎发生在席琳的作品中。在这项研究中，我研究了我们的认知过程如何决定对外部世界的认知，以及它如何在语言中反映出来。这项研究是构建基于人类认知过程的语义理论的项目的一部分。

I have pointed out various readings of sentences containing a change predicate and have shown the factors that produce these readings. Change predicates bring up the following threefold interesting ambiguity of interpretation.(1) change on the subject : Jacques a vieilli.(2) cumulative interpretation via value-changing interpretation : Le president a beaucoup rajeuni.(3) change produced by a change in a certain evaluation criterion : Chaque annee, Celine devient plus facile.(1) expresses an ordinary change, which occurred in the subject Jacques.(2) has a reading such that the president has changed and the new president is younger than the former one. None of the successive presidents becomes younger. In the cumulative reading in question, the ages of the successive values of the role president are compared.(3) expresses a change which does not occur in the subject itself. The writer Celine died long time ago and his work does not become easier every year. Rather the reading skill of the speaker has improved (for example, his knowledge of French has gotten better, he has acquired now a rich experience of life, better knowledge about literature, and so on), and because of this, Celine's work seems to be less difficult. So the actual change happened in the speaker's ability and not in Celine's work, but this change is expressed as if it had occurred to Celine's work.In this research, I studied based how our cognitive process decide the cognition of the outside world and how it is reflected in language. This research is a part of the project to construct a semantic theory bosed on human cognitive processes.