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The Semantics of Comparatives: A Difference-Based Approach 比较级语义:一种基于差异的方法
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffab003
Linmin Zhang, Jia Ling
1 Degree semantics has been developed to study how the meanings of 2 measurement and comparison are encoded in natural language. Within degree 3 semantics, this paper proposes a difference-based (or subtraction-based) approach 4 to analyze the semantics of comparatives. The motivation is the measurability and 5 comparability of differences involved in comparatives. The main claim is that 6 comparatives encode a subtraction equation among three scalar values: two 7 measurements along an interval scale and the difference between them. We 8 contribute two innovations: (i) using interval arithmetic to implement subtraction, 9 and (ii) analyzing comparative morpheme -er/more as an additive particle, denoting 10 the default, most general, positive difference. Our analysis inherits existing insights 11 in the literature. Moreover, the innovations bring new conceptual and empirical 12 advantages. In particular, we address the interpretation of comparatives containing 13 than-clause-internal quantifiers and various kinds of numerical differentials. We also 14 account for three puzzles with regard to the scope island issue, the monotonicity of 15 than-clauses, and the discourse status of the standard in comparison. 16
1度语义学是研究测量和比较的意义如何在自然语言中编码而发展起来的。在3级语义中,本文提出了一种基于差异(或基于减法)的方法来分析比较级的语义。动机是比较物中差异的可测量性和可比性。主要的主张是,6比较值编码了三个标量值之间的减法方程:沿着间隔尺度的两个7测量值以及它们之间的差值。我们贡献了两项创新:(i)使用区间算法实现减法,9和(ii)分析比较语素-er/more作为加性粒子,表示默认的,最普遍的,正差异。我们的分析继承了文献中已有的见解。此外,这些创新还带来了新的概念和经验优势。特别地,我们讨论了包含13个比子句内部量词和各种数值微分的比较级的解释。我们还解释了范围岛问题、15个比子句的单调性以及标准在比较中的话语地位三个方面的困惑。16
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引用次数: 7
Coordinating Ifs 协调Ifs
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffab006
Justin Khoo
Accounting for the behavior of conjoined and disjoined if-clauses is not easy for standard theories of conditionals that treat if as either an operator or restrictor. In this paper, I discuss four observations about coordinated if-clauses, and motivate a semantics for conditionals that reorients the compositional structure of the restrictor theory. On my proposal, if-clauses provide restrictions on modal domains, but they do so by way of a higher type intermediary—a set of propositions—that is collapsed by the modal. I argue that combining this view with an independently plausible type-shifting operation applied to or and and predicts the range of data we find for conditionals with coordinated if-clauses.
对于将if视为操作符或限制符的标准条件理论来说,考虑连用和不连用if-子句的行为并不容易。在本文中,我讨论了关于协调if-子句的四个观察结果,并激发了条件的语义,重新定位了限制子理论的组合结构。在我的建议中,if-子句提供了对模态域的限制,但它们是通过一种更高类型的中介——一组被模态分解的命题——来实现的。我认为,将此视图与应用于或和的独立可信的类型转换操作相结合,并预测我们为具有协调if-子句的条件找到的数据范围。
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引用次数: 0
Structured Plurality Reconsidered 重新考虑结构多元化
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-12-08 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa012
Berta Grimau
In this article, I address the question of the semantic analysis of structured plurals, that is, expressions like these children and those children, which seem to refer to pluralities of individuals divided into groups. In the first half of the article, I describe a variety of structured plural expressions and predicates they can combine with and I point out the difficulties faced by two extant approaches to the semantics of plurals: inflationary and cover-based semantics. In the second half of the article, I propose an alternative account which combines elements from both of them. The main novelty of my proposal is that, by capitalising on the background operation of certain pragmatic principles, it correctly formalises the fact that some interpretations of ambiguous sentences involving structured plurality are more accessible than others.
在本文中,我将讨论结构化复数的语义分析问题,即像这些孩子和那些孩子这样的表达,它们似乎指的是被分成群体的个体的复数。在本文的前半部分,我描述了各种结构化的复数表达式和它们可以组合的谓词,并指出了两种现有的复数语义方法所面临的困难:膨胀语义和基于覆盖的语义。在文章的后半部分,我提出了另一种解释,它结合了两者的元素。我的建议的主要新颖之处在于,通过利用某些语用原则的背景操作,它正确地形式化了这样一个事实,即对涉及结构复数的歧义句子的某些解释比其他解释更容易理解。
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引用次数: 2
Comparisons of Equality With German so...wie, and the Relationship Between Degrees and Properties 平等与德语so…以及度与属性之间的关系
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa011
Vera Hohaus, M. Zimmermann
We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of two kinds of so…wie-equative constructions in German, namely degree equatives and property equatives in the domain of individuals or events. Unlike in English and many other European languages (Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998, Rett 2013), both equative types in German feature the parameter marker so, suggesting a unified analysis. We show that the parallel formal expression of German degree and property equatives is accompanied by a parallel syntactic distribution (in predicative, attributive, and adverbial position), and by identical semantic properties: Both equative types allow for scope ambiguities, show negative island effects out of context, and license the negative polarity item überhaupt ‘at all’ in the complement clause. As the same properties are also shared by German comparatives, we adopt the influential quantificational analysis of comparatives in von Stechow (1984ab), Heim (1985, 2001, 2007), and Beck (2011), and treat both German equative types in a uniform manner as expressing universal quantification over sets of degrees or over sets of properties (of individuals or events). Conceptually, the uniform marking of degree-related and property-related meanings is expected given that the abstract semantic category degree (type $d$) can be reconstructed in terms of equivalence classes, i.e., ontologically simpler sets of individuals (type $langle e,trangle $) or events (type $langle v,trangle $). These are found in any language, showing that whether or not a language makes explicit reference to degrees (by means of gradable adjectives, degree question words, degree-only equatives) does not follow on general conceptual or semantic grounds, but is determined by the grammar of that language.
本文对德语中两种程度等价和性质等价的构式在个体或事件领域进行了结构透明、统一的语义分析。与英语和许多其他欧洲语言不同(Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998, Rett 2013),德语中的两种等式类型都以参数标记so为特征,表明了统一的分析。我们表明,德语程度和性质等号的平行形式表达伴随着平行的句法分布(在谓语、定语和状语位置上)和相同的语义属性:两种等号类型都允许范围歧义,显示出上下文外的负面岛屿效应,并允许补语从句中的消极极性项 berhaupt“at all”。由于德语比较项也具有相同的性质,我们采用了von Stechow (1984ab)、Heim(1985,2001,2007)和Beck(2011)中对比较项的有影响力的定量分析,并以统一的方式将两种德语等价类型视为表示对程度集或对属性集(个人或事件)的普遍量化。从概念上讲,考虑到抽象语义范畴度(类型$d$)可以用等价类来重构,即在本体论上更简单的个体集(类型$langle e,trangle $)或事件集(类型$langle v,trangle $),期望度相关和属性相关意义的统一标记。这些在任何语言中都存在,这表明一种语言是否明确提及程度(通过可分级的形容词、程度疑问词、仅指代程度的等号)并不遵循一般的概念或语义基础,而是由该语言的语法决定的。
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引用次数: 2
Cumulation Across Attitudes and Plural Projection 态度累积与多元投射
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa008
V. Schmitt
This paper investigates cumulative readings of sentences in which some, but not all of the plural expressions have a de dicto reading, i.e. sentences where the lower plural is interpreted in the scope of an attitude verb like believe. I argue that such cases represent a problem for existing accounts of cumulativity, because the required cumulative relation cannot be formed. I then motivate and propose an alternative analysis where all plural expressions are interpreted in situ: I expand the ‘plural projection’ framework put forth by Haslinger & Schmitt (2018, 2019), Schmitt (2019), where embedded pluralities ‘project’ to the denotations of higher nodes in the sense that the latter reflect the part-structure of the former and where cumulativity is derived via a compositional rule in a step-by-step fashion. I show that if the denotations of the plurals with the de dicto construal are analyzed as pluralities of individual concepts, which project in the afore-mentioned sense to pluralities of propositions, the data can be explained straightforwardly. This proposal differs from treatments in terms of collective belief that don’t appeal to pluralities of propositions ( Pasternak 2018a, b), in that it (i) arguably generalizes to a larger number of examples and (ii) links grammatical plurality in the embedded clause to the availability of cumulative readings.
本文研究了一些句子的累积阅读,其中一些,但不是所有的复数表达都有dicto的阅读,即句子的下复数被解释在一个态度动词的范围内,如believe。我认为,这些案例代表了现有的累积性描述的一个问题,因为所需的累积关系无法形成。然后,我激发并提出了一种替代分析,其中所有复数表达都在原位解释:我扩展了Haslinger和Schmitt (2018, 2019), Schmitt(2019)提出的“复数投影”框架,其中嵌入的复数“投影”到更高节点的外延,在某种意义上,后者反映了前者的部分结构,并且累积性是通过一步一步的组合规则推导出来的。我指出,如果把具有绝对解释的复数的外延作为个别概念的复数来分析,这些概念在上述意义上投射到命题的复数,那么这些资料就可以直接解释。这一建议与集体信念的处理不同,集体信念不需要命题的复数性(帕斯特纳克2018a, b),因为它(i)可以推广到更多的例子,(ii)将嵌入条款中的语法复数性与累积阅读的可用性联系起来。
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引用次数: 4
A Realis Subjunctive in German 德语中的现实虚拟语气
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffz005
Eva Csipak
The German Konjunktiv II is known for its reportative and irrealis uses. This paper argues for a third, realis, use which is independent of the other two uses. Thus by uttering ‘Da wäre Saft im Kühlschrank there is.[realis subjunctive] juice in the fridge’ a speaker can signal that not only is she certain that there is juice in the fridge, but also that she is offering the juice to an interlocutor. I show that the meaning contribution of the realis subjunctive is strictly not-at-issue, and I develop a multi-dimensional formal semantics that captures both the distribution of the realis subjunctive, and its interaction with operators such as negation and tense. The conditions of use of the construction are modelled in terms of decision theory.
德国的Konjunktiv II以其报道和非现实用途而闻名。本文论证了独立于其他两种用法的第三种用法,即现实用法。因此,通过说“Da wäre Saft im k hlschrank”,就有了。“果汁在冰箱里”说话者不仅可以表示她确信冰箱里有果汁,而且还可以表示她正在把果汁提供给对话者。我证明了现实虚拟语气的意义贡献是严格不存在争议的,并且我开发了一个多维形式语义,它既捕捉了现实虚拟语气的分布,也捕捉了它与否定和时态等操作符的相互作用。根据决策理论对结构的使用条件进行建模。
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引用次数: 1
Deriving Dual Dimensions of Bias: Preposed Negation Questions with EVEN 偏差的双重维度的推导:带有偶数的预设否定问题
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI: 10.1093/JOS/FFAA010
Sunwoo Jeong
Polar interrogatives with preposed negation (e.g., Didn’t Cam help?) convey positive epistemic bias. Polar interrogatives with even-type expressions, including prosodically stressed NPIs and minimizer NPIs (e.g., Did Cam lift a finger to help?), convey negative epistemic bias and often have a rhetorical flavor. This paper examines hybrid PQ constructions with both preposed negations and even-type expressions (e.g., Didn’t Cam lift a finger to help?; henceforth even-PNQs). It first presents a series of experimental studies which reveal that even-PNQs are characterized by complex, dual dimensions of bias contributed compositionally by both the preposed negation on the one hand and the even-type expression on the other. It then explores the theoretical implications of these results. The emerging data are shown to impose certain constraints on and generate additional desiderata for both the analyses of preposed negation questions and the analyses of even-type questions. Building on this discussion, a compositional analysis of even-PNQs is proposed. The analysis supports the presence of inner vs. outer negation ambiguity in PNQs, and identifies even-PNQs as inner-negation PNQs. It also adopts an informativity-based approach to the meaning contribution of even, formulated around the settledness of alternative issues.
极性疑问句带预设否定(例如,Didn 't Cam help?)传达积极的认知偏见。带有偶数类型表达的极性疑问句,包括节奏重读的npi和最小化的npi(例如,Cam举起手指来帮忙了吗?),传达了消极的认知偏见,通常带有修辞色彩。本文研究了带有介词否定和偶数型表达的混合PQ结构(例如,没有Cam举起手指来帮忙吗?;从今以后even-PNQs)。本文首先介绍了一系列的实验研究,这些实验研究揭示了偶数型pnq具有复杂的双重维度的偏见,这种偏见一方面是由预设否定,另一方面是由偶数型表达构成的。然后探讨这些结果的理论含义。新出现的数据对预设否定问题的分析和偶数型问题的分析都施加了一定的限制,并产生了额外的所需数据。在此基础上,提出了偶pnq的组成分析。该分析支持pnq中存在内部和外部否定歧义,并将非pnq确定为内部否定pnq。它还采用了一种基于信息性的方法,以even的意义贡献为基础,围绕替代问题的解决而制定。
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引用次数: 3
Domains of Polarity Items 极性项目的域
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-10-19 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa006
Vincent Homer
This article offers a unified theory of the licensing of Negative and Positive Polarity Items (PIs), focusing on the acceptability conditions of PPIs of the some-type, and NPIs of the any-type. It argues that licensing has both a syntactic and a semantic component. On the syntactic side, the acceptability of PIs is checked in constituents; in fact, for any given PI, only some constituents, referred to as `domains', are eligible for the evaluation of that PI. The semantic dimension of licensing consists in the sensitivity of PIs to the monotonicity properties of the syntactic environments they find themselves in. Two pieces of evidence support the semantic dimension of what I call the ‘environment-based’ approach defended here: (i.) PIs are subject to flip-flop and (ii.) certain inferences affect their acceptability by modifying the monotonicity of their environment. A third property, called ‘entanglement’ and so far unnoticed, is described: the acceptability of PIs depends on the acceptability of other PIs in the same syntactic environment. The latter property is exploited to determine what semantic property some is sensitive to: it turns out that, contrary to the consensus among researchers, some is acceptable in the complement of the set of environments in which any is acceptable, and vice versa.
本文提出了正负极性项目许可的统一理论,重点讨论了某种类型的正负极性项目和任意类型的非极性项目的可接受条件。它认为许可包含句法和语义两个部分。在句法方面,在成分中检查pi的可接受性;事实上,对于任何给定的PI,只有一些成分,称为“域”,有资格对该PI进行评估。许可的语义维度在于pi对其所处语法环境的单调性的敏感性。有两项证据支持我在这里捍卫的所谓“基于环境”方法的语义维度:(1)pi受制于触发器和(ii)某些推论通过改变其环境的单调性而影响其可接受性。第三个特性被称为“纠缠”,迄今为止还没有被注意到,它被描述为:pi的可接受性取决于相同语法环境中其他pi的可接受性。后一种属性被用来确定某些语义属性对什么敏感:事实证明,与研究人员的共识相反,在任何可接受的环境集合的补充中,某些是可接受的,反之亦然。
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引用次数: 10
Locations 位置
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-08-25 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa007
Susan Rothstein
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Dependent Plurality and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures: Remarks on Zweig 2009 依赖复数与标量蕴涵理论:关于Zweig 2009的评论
IF 1.9 3区 工程技术 Q3 MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffaa004
N. Ivlieva
Following a recent discussion in Fox & Spector 2018, this paper provides an argument for a particular view of the theory of scalar implicatures and exhaustification where exhaustification is only allowed if it alters the overall sentence meaning without weakening it. I show that this idea is helpful to make sense of the so-called dependent plural interpretations, addressed within the theory of scalar implicatures in Zweig 2009 (see also Zweig 2008). Even though Zweig’s account is based on insightful and plausible assumptions (most crucially, the idea that the multiplicity component of the meaning of plurals is a scalar implicature), it ultimately fails to derive dependent plural readings. The main reason for this is the use of the Strongest Candidate Principle of Chierchia 2006 that happens to filter out the needed interpretation. Replacing the Strongest Candidate Principle with a weaker constraint on exhaustification along the lines of Fox & Spector 2018 resolves the issue, while keeping most of Zweig’s insights intact.
在Fox & Spector 2018最近的一次讨论之后,本文为标量含义和耗尽理论的特定观点提供了一个论据,其中耗尽只有在改变整个句子的意义而不削弱它时才被允许。我表明,这个想法有助于理解所谓的依赖复数解释,在Zweig 2009的标量蕴涵理论中解决(另见Zweig 2008)。尽管茨威格的描述是基于深刻而可信的假设(最关键的是,复数意义的多重成分是标量含意的想法),但它最终未能推导出依赖的复数解读。这样做的主要原因是使用了Chierchia 2006的最强候选原则,该原则恰好过滤掉了所需的解释。按照Fox & Spector 2018的思路,用对耗竭的较弱约束取代最强候选原则解决了这个问题,同时保留了茨威格的大部分见解。
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