Pub Date : 2022-04-04DOI: 10.1007/s11050-022-09191-9
K. Johnson
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1007/s11050-022-09187-5
Matías Verdecchia
In this squib, I evaluate the contradiction analysis (Abrusán in Natural Language Semantics 19(3):257–321, 2011, in Weak island semantics, 2014) and the necessary infelicity analysis (Oshima in Washio et al. (eds.), New frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2007; Schwarz and Simonenko in Natural Language Semantics 26(3–4):253–279, 2018b) of factive islands in light of a pattern that has not been previously discussed in the literature: questions about propositions. I argue that while the necessary infelicity approach can straightforwardly explain the acceptability of this kind of question, the contradiction account undergenerates, since it wrongly predicts their ungrammaticality. I claim that this prediction follows from the assumption that the domain of quantification contains contraries. Therefore, the main contribution of this squib is the observation that such an assumption cannot play an explanatory role in accounting for factive islands.
在这个短评中,我评估了矛盾分析(Abrusán在自然语言语义学19(3):257-321,2011,在弱岛语义学,2014)和必要的不正确分析(Oshima In Washio et al.(主编),人工智能新前沿,2007;Schwarz和Simonenko在《自然语言语义学》26(3-4):253 - 279,2018b)中提出了一种以前没有在文献中讨论过的模式:关于命题的问题。我认为,虽然必要谬误的方法可以直接解释这类问题的可接受性,但矛盾解释是不充分的,因为它错误地预测了它们的不语法性。我认为,这一预测是基于量化领域包含对立面的假设。因此,这个哑炮的主要贡献是观察到这种假设不能在解释活动岛屿方面发挥解释作用。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1007/s11050-022-09189-3
R. Stockwell
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Pub Date : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1007/s11050-021-09185-z
I. Heim, A. Kratzer
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s11050-021-09183-1
Paul D. Elbourne
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s11050-021-09181-3
John Gluckman
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