Supplements without Bidimensionalism

IF 1.6 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-21 DOI:10.1162/ling_a_00442
Philippe Schlenker
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In seminal work, Potts (2005) claimed that the behavior of “supplements”—appositive relative clauses (ARCs) and nominals—offers a powerful argument in favor of a multidimensional semantics, one in which certain expressions fail to interact scopally with various operators because their meaning is located in a new semantic dimension. Focusing on ARCs, with data from English, French, and German (Poschmann 2018), I explore an alternative to Potts’s bidimensional account in which (a) appositives may be syntactically attached with matrix scope, despite their appearance in embedded positions, as in McCawley 1981; (b) contra McCawley, they may also be syntactically attached within the scope of other operators, in which case they semantically interact with them; (c) they are semantically conjoined with the rest of the sentence, but (d) they give rise to nontrivial projection facts when they do not have matrix scope. In effect, the proposed analysis accounts for most of the complexity of these data by positing a more articulated syntax and pragmatics, while eschewing the use of a new dimension of meaning.
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在开创性的工作中,Potts(2005)声称,“补语”——同位关系从句(ARC)和主词——的行为为支持多维语义提供了有力的论据,在多维语义中,某些表达式无法与各种运算符进行范围交互,因为它们的含义位于一个新的语义维度。以ARC为中心,利用英语、法语和德语的数据(Poschmann 2018),我探索了一种替代Potts的二维描述的方法,其中(a)同位语可能在语法上与矩阵范围相连,尽管它们出现在嵌入位置,如McCauley 1981;(b) 与麦考利相反,它们也可能在语法上附加在其他运算符的范围内,在这种情况下,它们在语义上与它们交互;(c) 它们在语义上与句子的其余部分相连,但(d)当它们没有矩阵范围时,它们会产生非平凡的投影事实。事实上,所提出的分析通过提出更清晰的句法和语用学来解释这些数据的大部分复杂性,同时避免使用新的意义维度。
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