首页 > 最新文献

Semantics and Linguistic Theory最新文献

英文 中文
A compositional intersective account of Heterofunctional Coordination 异功能配位的合成交叉性解释
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5333
A. Przepiórkowski
The analysis presented in this paper extends the uniform intersective (“boolean”) treatment of conjunctive coordinators to Heterofunctional Coordination (HC), i.e., coordination of different grammatical functions. A compositional account of HC based on mainstream derivational syntax is proposed, one that makes Champollion’s (2015) “quantificational event semantics” compatible with derivational syntax. The analysis is based on the assumption, common in Minimalism, that traces of moved quantifiers denote domain restrictions rather than just variables.
本文的分析将连词配合语的统一相交(布尔)处理扩展到异功能配合(HC),即不同语法功能的配合。提出了一种基于主流衍生句法的HC组合解释,使Champollion(2015)的“量化事件语义”与衍生句法兼容。该分析基于极简主义中常见的假设,即移动量词的痕迹表示域限制,而不仅仅是变量。
{"title":"A compositional intersective account of Heterofunctional Coordination","authors":"A. Przepiórkowski","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5333","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis presented in this paper extends the uniform intersective (“boolean”) treatment of conjunctive coordinators to Heterofunctional Coordination (HC), i.e., coordination of different grammatical functions. A compositional account of HC based on mainstream derivational syntax is proposed, one that makes Champollion’s (2015) “quantificational event semantics” compatible with derivational syntax. The analysis is based on the assumption, common in Minimalism, that traces of moved quantifiers denote domain restrictions rather than just variables.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87205727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Referential effects on verb agreement: Finnish numeral-noun constructions 动词一致性的指称效应:芬兰语数名词结构
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5388
E. Kaiser
This paper explores seemingly puzzling subject-verb agreement patterns with Finnish numeral noun constructions (NNCs, e.g. three birds) in subject position, which can occur with singular or plural verbs. This alternation is not predicted by current theories. Building on properties of Finnish independent of NNCs, I argue that the Finnish data can be reconciled with prior analyses if we analyze verb number marking as dependent on referential properties of the NNC. I suggest that NNCs with singular verbs do not involve agreement, but rather a default verb form that surfaces in contexts involving existential construal, while NNCs with plural verbs are a true case of (semantic) agreement. According to my analysis, the lack of subject-verb agreement with existentially-interpreted NNCs is related to the fact that, more generally, existentially-construed subjects do not trigger verb agreement in Finnish (which presumably stems from their underlying syntactic position, given the discourse-configurational nature of Finnish). By arguing that subject-verb agreement in Finnish NNCs is variable and depends on existential vs. definite construals, while agreement patterns in the nominal domain are more rigid, these data pose a challenge to attempts to unify agreement mechanisms in the verbal and nominal domains.
本文探讨了芬兰语数名词结构(如three birds)在主语位置上看似令人费解的主谓一致模式,这种模式可以出现在单数或复数动词中。目前的理论无法预测这种交替。基于独立于NNC的芬兰语属性,我认为如果我们将动词数字标记分析为依赖于NNC的参考属性,那么芬兰语数据可以与先前的分析相协调。我认为,带有单数动词的nnc并不涉及一致性,而是一种默认的动词形式,在涉及存在解释的语境中出现,而带有复数动词的nnc是(语义)一致性的真实情况。根据我的分析,存在解释的NNCs缺乏主谓一致与以下事实有关:更普遍地说,存在解释的主语在芬兰语中不会触发动词一致(考虑到芬兰语的话语配置特性,这可能源于它们潜在的句法位置)。这些数据表明芬兰语nnc中的主谓一致是可变的,取决于存在和确定的识解,而名义领域的一致模式更为严格,这对统一动词和名义领域的一致机制提出了挑战。
{"title":"Referential effects on verb agreement: Finnish numeral-noun constructions","authors":"E. Kaiser","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5388","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores seemingly puzzling subject-verb agreement patterns with Finnish numeral noun constructions (NNCs, e.g. three birds) in subject position, which can occur with singular or plural verbs. This alternation is not predicted by current theories. Building on properties of Finnish independent of NNCs, I argue that the Finnish data can be reconciled with prior analyses if we analyze verb number marking as dependent on referential properties of the NNC. I suggest that NNCs with singular verbs do not involve agreement, but rather a default verb form that surfaces in contexts involving existential construal, while NNCs with plural verbs are a true case of (semantic) agreement. According to my analysis, the lack of subject-verb agreement with existentially-interpreted NNCs is related to the fact that, more generally, existentially-construed subjects do not trigger verb agreement in Finnish (which presumably stems from their underlying syntactic position, given the discourse-configurational nature of Finnish). By arguing that subject-verb agreement in Finnish NNCs is variable and depends on existential vs. definite construals, while agreement patterns in the nominal domain are more rigid, these data pose a challenge to attempts to unify agreement mechanisms in the verbal and nominal domains.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89327248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Restrictions on the position of exh exh位置的限制
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5403
Keng Ji Chow, M. Erlewine
The grammatical approach to scalar implicatures attributes their introduction to a covert operator exh, which can be posited in various structural positions. By studying the interaction of scalar implicature calculation and the presuppositions of English also and again, we are able to pinpoint the structural position of exh. This diagnostic shows that some triggers of scalar implicature require exh to be adjoined as low as possible above them, whereas other triggers allow for more delayed adjunction of exh. We offer a concrete proposal for these behaviors in terms of syntactic feature-checking and show how it extends to cases involving ignorance inferences.
标量蕴涵的语法方法将它们的引入归因于一个隐蔽算子exh,它可以被设置在不同的结构位置。通过研究标量蕴涵计算与英语预设的相互作用,我们可以确定exh的结构位置。这个诊断表明,一些标量蕴涵的触发器要求exh尽可能低地连接在它们上面,而其他触发器允许更延迟地连接exh。我们在语法特征检查方面为这些行为提供了一个具体的建议,并展示了它如何扩展到涉及无知推理的情况。
{"title":"Restrictions on the position of exh","authors":"Keng Ji Chow, M. Erlewine","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5403","url":null,"abstract":"The grammatical approach to scalar implicatures attributes their introduction to a covert operator exh, which can be posited in various structural positions. By studying the interaction of scalar implicature calculation and the presuppositions of English also and again, we are able to pinpoint the structural position of exh. This diagnostic shows that some triggers of scalar implicature require exh to be adjoined as low as possible above them, whereas other triggers allow for more delayed adjunction of exh. We offer a concrete proposal for these behaviors in terms of syntactic feature-checking and show how it extends to cases involving ignorance inferences.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77857843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Division vs. distributivity: Is per just like each? 分割vs分配:每一个都和每一个一样吗?
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5335
E. Coppock
This paper argues that there are lexical items that conventionally express the idea of dividing one quantity by another, and per is one of them. In particular, the proposal is that there are three ratio-related senses of per: (i) a quotient function; (ii) a quotient operator; and (iii) quotient of measure functions. The ratio-based approach, which is built up here in order to handle a wider range of data than previous ratio-based approaches could, is contrasted with an opposing view, one on which per is a distributivity marker like each. Four types of evidence are used: (i) cases involving measurement of an object or an event whose measure is smaller than the unit given by per’s complement; (ii) uses in the differential argument of a comparative; (iii) uses modifying a measure function noun; and and (iv) uses modifying a gradable predicate. All of these are problematic for a distributivity- marker analysis, and support the idea that per expresses the concept of ratio. Along the way, we gain diagnostics for whether a given item conventionally expresses the concept of a ratio in a given language.
本文认为,有一些词汇习惯上表达一个量除以另一个量的概念,per就是其中之一。特别地,建议有三种与比率相关的per意义:(i)商函数;(ii)商算子;(3)测度函数的商。这里建立的基于比率的方法是为了处理比以前基于比率的方法更大范围的数据,它与另一种相反的观点形成对比,在这种观点中,每个都是像每个一样的分布性标记。使用四种类型的证据:(i)涉及测量物体或事件的情况,其测量小于每个补语所给出的单位;(ii)在比较级的区别论元中使用;(三)使用修饰测度函数名词;And (iv)使用修改可分级谓词。所有这些对于分配性-标记分析来说都是有问题的,并且支持per表示比率概念的想法。在此过程中,我们获得了关于给定项是否在给定语言中按惯例表达比率概念的诊断。
{"title":"Division vs. distributivity: Is per just like each?","authors":"E. Coppock","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5335","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that there are lexical items that conventionally express the idea of dividing one quantity by another, and per is one of them. In particular, the proposal is that there are three ratio-related senses of per: (i) a quotient function; (ii) a quotient operator; and (iii) quotient of measure functions. The ratio-based approach, which is built up here in order to handle a wider range of data than previous ratio-based approaches could, is contrasted with an opposing view, one on which per is a distributivity marker like each. Four types of evidence are used: (i) cases involving measurement of an object or an event whose measure is smaller than the unit given by per’s complement; (ii) uses in the differential argument of a comparative; (iii) uses modifying a measure function noun; and and (iv) uses modifying a gradable predicate. All of these are problematic for a distributivity- marker analysis, and support the idea that per expresses the concept of ratio. Along the way, we gain diagnostics for whether a given item conventionally expresses the concept of a ratio in a given language.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81649935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison 分级形容词的增量语用解释:比较标准的作用
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5399
S. Alexandropoulou, Henrik Discher, Marisha Herb, Nicole Gotzner
While for relative gradable adjectives the value on the underlying measurement scale that serves as a standard of comparison is contextually determined, for absolute gradable adjectives this is typically taken to be a fixed, context-invariant value (Rotstein & Winter 2004; Kennedy & McNally 2005). The present study investigates how lexical-semantic factors, such as the type of standard of comparison invoked by gradable adjectives, affect the incremental computation of scalar implicatures triggered by such adjectives. Our study shows that the incremental computation of scalar implicatures is facilitated by the immediate visual context but only for relative adjectives. Minimum standard absolute adjectives, which impose a lower bound on their corresponding measurement scales, robustly trigger upper-bounded interpretations independently of the availability of contrastive visual information. Our findings indicate that different kinds of scalar meaning are computed incrementally and potentially in parallel. Overall, these findings shed new light on theories of scalar implicatures and highlight the need for a model of adjective meaning that incorporates semantic and pragmatic factors (see also Gotzner 2021; and for related ideas in the domain of quantifiers see Franke & Bergen 2020 and Cremers, Wilcox & Spector 2022, and Magri (2017) for Hirschberg scales).
相对可分级形容词作为比较标准的基础测量量表上的值是由上下文决定的,而绝对可分级形容词通常被认为是一个固定的、上下文不变的值(Rotstein & Winter 2004;Kennedy & McNally 2005)。本研究探讨了词汇语义因素,如可分级形容词所调用的比较标准类型,如何影响这些形容词所触发的标量含义的增量计算。我们的研究表明,标量含义的增量计算是由直接的视觉环境促进的,但仅适用于相对形容词。最小标准绝对形容词在其相应的测量尺度上施加了一个下界,它强有力地触发了独立于对比视觉信息可用性的上界解释。我们的研究结果表明,不同类型的标量含义是增量计算的,并且可能是并行计算的。总的来说,这些发现揭示了标量蕴涵理论的新亮点,并强调需要一个包含语义和语用因素的形容词意义模型(另见Gotzner 2021;量词领域的相关观点见Franke & Bergen 2020和Cremers, Wilcox & Spector 2022,以及Magri(2017)的Hirschberg量表)。
{"title":"Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison","authors":"S. Alexandropoulou, Henrik Discher, Marisha Herb, Nicole Gotzner","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5399","url":null,"abstract":"While for relative gradable adjectives the value on the underlying measurement scale that serves as a standard of comparison is contextually determined, for absolute gradable adjectives this is typically taken to be a fixed, context-invariant value (Rotstein & Winter 2004; Kennedy & McNally 2005). The present study investigates how lexical-semantic factors, such as the type of standard of comparison invoked by gradable adjectives, affect the incremental computation of scalar implicatures triggered by such adjectives. Our study shows that the incremental computation of scalar implicatures is facilitated by the immediate visual context but only for relative adjectives. Minimum standard absolute adjectives, which impose a lower bound on their corresponding measurement scales, robustly trigger upper-bounded interpretations independently of the availability of contrastive visual information. Our findings indicate that different kinds of scalar meaning are computed incrementally and potentially in parallel. Overall, these findings shed new light on theories of scalar implicatures and highlight the need for a model of adjective meaning that incorporates semantic and pragmatic factors (see also Gotzner 2021; and for related ideas in the domain of quantifiers see Franke & Bergen 2020 and Cremers, Wilcox & Spector 2022, and Magri (2017) for Hirschberg scales).","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79371001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Back to restitutive readings again 再次回到恢复性阅读
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5409
J. Iyer
This paper observes that adverbs meaning ‘back’ systematically give rise to restitutive readings which have long been thought of only as secondary readings of adverbs meaning ‘again’. Restitutive readings are argued to arise from two sources: repetition of a state, or reversal of an event. Languages like English and Hindi-Urdu have a separate dedicated adverb for each, showing the independence of these two sources. A single reversal-based/counterdirectional lexical entry (originally proposed for AGAIN) is demonstrated to capture an intuitive relationship that exists between three core readings of BACK. These readings are, however, shown to have several as yet unconsidered properties that necessitate a finer-grained expression of counterdirectionality than is afforded by the broad concept of reverse events. The paper significantly revises the counterdirectional presupposition, capturing the core readings of BACK-adverbs by appealing not to repetition or reversal but to elements that can be copied from the assertion itself: THEME, SCALE, and end point of scalar change.
本文观察到,意为“回来”的副词系统地产生了回复阅读,这种阅读长期以来被认为只是意为“再次”的副词的二次阅读。人们认为,恢复性读数有两种来源:一种状态的重复,或者一种事件的逆转。像英语和印地语-乌尔都语这样的语言都有一个单独的专用副词,表明这两种来源的独立性。一个基于反转/反向的词汇条目(最初是为AGAIN提出的)被证明可以捕捉BACK的三个核心读数之间存在的直观关系。然而,这些读数显示有几个尚未考虑的特性,需要更细粒度的反方向性表达,而不是反向事件的广义概念所提供的。本文对反向预设进行了重大修改,通过吸引可以从断言本身复制的元素(主题、尺度和标量变化的终点)而不是重复或反转来捕捉反向副词的核心读数。
{"title":"Back to restitutive readings again","authors":"J. Iyer","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5409","url":null,"abstract":"This paper observes that adverbs meaning ‘back’ systematically give rise to restitutive readings which have long been thought of only as secondary readings of adverbs meaning ‘again’. Restitutive readings are argued to arise from two sources: repetition of a state, or reversal of an event. Languages like English and Hindi-Urdu have a separate dedicated adverb for each, showing the independence of these two sources. A single reversal-based/counterdirectional lexical entry (originally proposed for AGAIN) is demonstrated to capture an intuitive relationship that exists between three core readings of BACK. These readings are, however, shown to have several as yet unconsidered properties that necessitate a finer-grained expression of counterdirectionality than is afforded by the broad concept of reverse events. The paper significantly revises the counterdirectional presupposition, capturing the core readings of BACK-adverbs by appealing not to repetition or reversal but to elements that can be copied from the assertion itself: THEME, SCALE, and end point of scalar change.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85435240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca 没有补充的态度报告:Amahuaca的案例
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5365
Emily Clem
Classic analyses of propositional attitude reports assume that attitude verbs compose with a clausal argument that expresses a proposition. I use original fieldwork data to demonstrate that Amahuaca (Panoan; Peru) attitude reports involve high adjunct switch-reference clauses rather than clausal complements to an attitude verb. This structure raises issues for the traditionally assumed compositional semantics of attitude reports. I present two potential analyses that do not require the verb to compose directly with a complement CP, ultimately arguing in favor of an analysis that aligns with proposals by Kratzer (2006) and Moulton (2015) that the internal arguments of attitude verbs are individuals with propositional content. Amahuaca therefore provides novel empirical support for this approach to the semantics of attitude reports.
对命题态度报告的经典分析假设,态度动词与表达命题的小句论点组成。我使用原始的田野调查数据来证明Amahuaca (Panoan;(秘鲁)态度报告中包含的是高修饰语转换引用从句,而不是态度动词的小句补语。这种结构提出了传统上假设的态度报告的组合语义问题。我提出了两种不需要动词直接与补语CP组成的潜在分析,最终支持与Kratzer(2006)和Moulton(2015)的建议一致的分析,即态度动词的内部参数是具有命题内容的个体。因此,Amahuaca为态度报告的语义研究提供了新的经验支持。
{"title":"Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca","authors":"Emily Clem","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5365","url":null,"abstract":"Classic analyses of propositional attitude reports assume that attitude verbs compose with a clausal argument that expresses a proposition. I use original fieldwork data to demonstrate that Amahuaca (Panoan; Peru) attitude reports involve high adjunct switch-reference clauses rather than clausal complements to an attitude verb. This structure raises issues for the traditionally assumed compositional semantics of attitude reports. I present two potential analyses that do not require the verb to compose directly with a complement CP, ultimately arguing in favor of an analysis that aligns with proposals by Kratzer (2006) and Moulton (2015) that the internal arguments of attitude verbs are individuals with propositional content. Amahuaca therefore provides novel empirical support for this approach to the semantics of attitude reports.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90112760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Perfect variations in dialogue: a parallel corpus approach 对话的完美变异:平行语料库方法
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5342
J. Tellings, Martín Fuchs, Martijn van der Klis, Bert Le Bruyn, H. de Swart
The variation in distribution and meaning of the English Present Perfect compared to its counterparts in other European languages raises a puzzle for the cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics of tense and aspect. We apply Translation Mining, a form-based approach, to analyze the meaning of the HAVE-PERFECT across languages in a parallel corpus based on "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and its translations in Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, German and French. We use the alternation in the Harry Potter novel between narrative discourse (storytelling) and dialogue (the characters talking to each other) to establish the PERFECT as an indexical tense-aspect category that appears exclusively in dialogue. We then link the proposed information management roles of the Present Perfect (Portner 2003, Nishiyama & Koenig 2010) to moves in the language game. We find different distributions of PERFECT use across the sentence types corresponding to these moves (declarative vs. interrogative). This lends support to a cross-linguistically common rhetorical structure in sequences of PERFECT sentences (de Swart 2007).
与其他欧洲语言相比,英语现在完成时在分布和意义上的差异给时态和时态的跨语言语义和语用学带来了难题。我们采用基于形式的翻译挖掘方法,对基于《哈利波特与魔法石》及其瑞典语、西班牙语、荷兰语、德语和法语翻译的平行语料库中的HAVE-PERFECT的跨语言意义进行了分析。我们在《哈利波特》小说中使用叙事话语(讲故事)和对话(人物相互交谈)之间的交替,将完成句建立为一种指代性的时态-面向范畴,这种范畴只出现在对话中。然后,我们将现在完成时的信息管理角色(Portner 2003, Nishiyama & Koenig 2010)与语言游戏中的动作联系起来。我们发现PERFECT在与这些动作(陈述句和疑问句)相对应的句子类型中使用的不同分布。这为完美句子序列中的跨语言常见修辞结构提供了支持(de Swart 2007)。
{"title":"Perfect variations in dialogue: a parallel corpus approach","authors":"J. Tellings, Martín Fuchs, Martijn van der Klis, Bert Le Bruyn, H. de Swart","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5342","url":null,"abstract":"The variation in distribution and meaning of the English Present Perfect compared to its counterparts in other European languages raises a puzzle for the cross-linguistic semantics and pragmatics of tense and aspect. We apply Translation Mining, a form-based approach, to analyze the meaning of the HAVE-PERFECT across languages in a parallel corpus based on \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" and its translations in Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, German and French. We use the alternation in the Harry Potter novel between narrative discourse (storytelling) and dialogue (the characters talking to each other) to establish the PERFECT as an indexical tense-aspect category that appears exclusively in dialogue. We then link the proposed information management roles of the Present Perfect (Portner 2003, Nishiyama & Koenig 2010) to moves in the language game. We find different distributions of PERFECT use across the sentence types corresponding to these moves (declarative vs. interrogative). This lends support to a cross-linguistically common rhetorical structure in sequences of PERFECT sentences (de Swart 2007).","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89732444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Social identity, precision and charity: when less precise speakers are held to stricter standard 社会身份,精确和慈善:当不精确的说话者受到更严格的标准时
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5406
Andrea Beltrama, F. Schwarz
Recent has begun to show systematic connections between social information and pragmatic reasoning. These findings raise the question of whether social information shapes comprehenders' assessments of the correctness of linguistic description in light of a single known and determined fact. We explore this question by testing the impact of speaker identity on T(ruth)-V(alue) J(udgment)s based on the interpretation of number words. We find that imprecise statements from speakers socially expected to be less precise – i.e. “Chill" ones – are rejected at a higher rate, and thus held to more stringent evaluation standards, than those from speakers socially expected to speak more precisely – i.e. “Nerdy" ones. We explain the new finding by appealing to the idea that, by virtue of generally being perceived to be more precise, Nerdy speakers are granted higher epistemic credibility than Chill ones. The emerging picture is one in which TVJ assessments are affected by social considerations in a different way from other experimental tasks, suggesting a nuanced interplay between social information and different interpretation tasks and processes
最近已经开始显示出社会信息和语用推理之间的系统联系。这些发现提出了一个问题,即社会信息是否会根据一个已知和确定的事实影响理解者对语言描述正确性的评估。我们通过基于数字词的解释测试说话人身份对T(真理)-V(价值)J(判断)s的影响来探讨这个问题。我们发现,与社会期望说话更精确的人(如“书呆子”)相比,社会期望说话更精确的人(如“冷淡”)说出的不精确的陈述被拒绝的比率更高,因此需要更严格的评估标准。我们对这一新发现的解释是,书呆子说话的人通常被认为更精确,因此在认知上比寒气的人更可信。新出现的情况是,TVJ评估受到社会因素的影响的方式与其他实验任务不同,这表明社会信息与不同的解释任务和过程之间存在微妙的相互作用
{"title":"Social identity, precision and charity: when less precise speakers are held to stricter standard","authors":"Andrea Beltrama, F. Schwarz","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5406","url":null,"abstract":"Recent has begun to show systematic connections between social information and pragmatic reasoning. These findings raise the question of whether social information shapes comprehenders' assessments of the correctness of linguistic description in light of a single known and determined fact. We explore this question by testing the impact of speaker identity on T(ruth)-V(alue) J(udgment)s based on the interpretation of number words. We find that imprecise statements from speakers socially expected to be less precise – i.e. “Chill\" ones – are rejected at a higher rate, and thus held to more stringent evaluation standards, than those from speakers socially expected to speak more precisely – i.e. “Nerdy\" ones. We explain the new finding by appealing to the idea that, by virtue of generally being perceived to be more precise, Nerdy speakers are granted higher epistemic credibility than Chill ones. The emerging picture is one in which TVJ assessments are affected by social considerations in a different way from other experimental tasks, suggesting a nuanced interplay between social information and different interpretation tasks and processes","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79902581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Framing events in the logic of verbal modification 言语修饰逻辑中的事件框架
Pub Date : 2022-12-29 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.5354
Alexis Wellwood
I ask what a small set of modification data requires of clausal event semantics. Classic Davidsonian semantics posits that modifiers like "in the hallway" express properties of events, and expects that iterations of such modifiers will simply contribute additional conjuncts at logical form. The data I consider challenges this view, and others cast in the Davidsonian spirit, at least so long as we hope to preserve an important and plausible semantic principle, Role Exhaustion (Williams 2015). As I show, preserving the principle and accounting for the facts can be accomplished by adopting two independently-motivated sets of claims: first, that verbs introduce existential closure over their event argument, and modifiers take verb meanings as semantic arguments (Champollion 2015); second, that simple clauses have two layers of event description, "framing" and "framed" (Schein 2016). In the end, I sketch two possible extensions of the approach, towards the interpretation of temporal modification and negative perceptual reports.
我问的是,一小组修改数据对子句事件语义有什么要求。经典的戴维森语义学假定,像“在走廊里”这样的修饰语表达了事件的属性,并期望这样的修饰语的迭代将简单地以逻辑形式提供额外的连词。我所考虑的数据挑战了这一观点,以及其他具有戴维森精神的人,至少只要我们希望保留一个重要而合理的语义原则,角色衰竭(Williams 2015)。正如我所展示的,保留原则和对事实的解释可以通过采用两组独立动机的主张来完成:首先,动词在其事件论证中引入存在闭包,修饰语将动词的含义作为语义论证(Champollion 2015);其次,简单从句有两层事件描述,“框架”和“框架”(Schein 2016)。最后,我概述了该方法的两种可能的扩展,即对时间修饰和负面感知报告的解释。
{"title":"Framing events in the logic of verbal modification","authors":"Alexis Wellwood","doi":"10.3765/salt.v1i0.5354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5354","url":null,"abstract":"I ask what a small set of modification data requires of clausal event semantics. Classic Davidsonian semantics posits that modifiers like \"in the hallway\" express properties of events, and expects that iterations of such modifiers will simply contribute additional conjuncts at logical form. The data I consider challenges this view, and others cast in the Davidsonian spirit, at least so long as we hope to preserve an important and plausible semantic principle, Role Exhaustion (Williams 2015). As I show, preserving the principle and accounting for the facts can be accomplished by adopting two independently-motivated sets of claims: first, that verbs introduce existential closure over their event argument, and modifiers take verb meanings as semantic arguments (Champollion 2015); second, that simple clauses have two layers of event description, \"framing\" and \"framed\" (Schein 2016). In the end, I sketch two possible extensions of the approach, towards the interpretation of temporal modification and negative perceptual reports.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85806444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
期刊
Semantics and Linguistic Theory
全部 Acc. Chem. Res. ACS Applied Bio Materials ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces ACS Appl. Nano Mater. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. ACS BIOMATER-SCI ENG ACS Catal. ACS Cent. Sci. ACS Chem. Biol. ACS Chemical Health & Safety ACS Chem. Neurosci. ACS Comb. Sci. ACS Earth Space Chem. ACS Energy Lett. ACS Infect. Dis. ACS Macro Lett. ACS Mater. Lett. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. ACS Nano ACS Omega ACS Photonics ACS Sens. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. ACS Synth. Biol. Anal. Chem. BIOCHEMISTRY-US Bioconjugate Chem. BIOMACROMOLECULES Chem. Res. Toxicol. Chem. Rev. Chem. Mater. CRYST GROWTH DES ENERG FUEL Environ. Sci. Technol. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. IND ENG CHEM RES Inorg. Chem. J. Agric. Food. Chem. J. Chem. Eng. Data J. Chem. Educ. J. Chem. Inf. Model. J. Chem. Theory Comput. J. Med. Chem. J. Nat. Prod. J PROTEOME RES J. Am. Chem. Soc. LANGMUIR MACROMOLECULES Mol. Pharmaceutics Nano Lett. Org. Lett. ORG PROCESS RES DEV ORGANOMETALLICS J. Org. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. A J. Phys. Chem. B J. Phys. Chem. C J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Analyst Anal. Methods Biomater. Sci. Catal. Sci. Technol. Chem. Commun. Chem. Soc. Rev. CHEM EDUC RES PRACT CRYSTENGCOMM Dalton Trans. Energy Environ. Sci. ENVIRON SCI-NANO ENVIRON SCI-PROC IMP ENVIRON SCI-WAT RES Faraday Discuss. Food Funct. Green Chem. Inorg. Chem. Front. Integr. Biol. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. J. Mater. Chem. A J. Mater. Chem. B J. Mater. Chem. C Lab Chip Mater. Chem. Front. Mater. Horiz. MEDCHEMCOMM Metallomics Mol. Biosyst. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. Nanoscale Nanoscale Horiz. Nat. Prod. Rep. New J. Chem. Org. Biomol. Chem. Org. Chem. Front. PHOTOCH PHOTOBIO SCI PCCP Polym. Chem.
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1