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The scope of alternatives: indefiniteness and islands
Linguistics and Philosophy ( IF 1.167 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-26 , DOI: 10.1007/s10988-019-09278-3
Simon Charlow

I argue that alternative-denoting expressions interact with their semantic context by taking scope. With an empirical focus on indefinites in English, I show how this approach improves on standard alternative-semantic architectures that use point-wise composition to subvert islands, as well as on in situ approaches to indefinites more generally. Unlike grammars based on point-wise composition, scope-based alternative management is thoroughly categorematic, doesn’t under-generate readings when multiple sources of alternatives occur on an island, and is compatible with standard treatments of binding. Unlike all in situ (pseudo-scope) treatments of indefinites, relying on a true scope mechanism prevents over-generation when an operator binds into an indefinite. My account relies only on function application, some mechanism for scope-taking, and two freely-applying type-shifters: the first is Karttunen’s (Linguist Philos 1(1):3–44, 1977 . https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351935 ) proto-question operator, aka Partee’s (in: Groenendijk, de Jongh, Stokhof (eds) Studies in discourse representation theory and the theory of generalized quantifiers, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986 ) IDENT , and the second can be factored out of extant approaches to the semantics of questions in the tradition of Karttunen ( 1977 ). These type-shifters form a decomposition of LIFT , the familiar function mapping values into scope-takers. Exceptional scope of alternative-generating expressions arises via (snowballing) scopal pied-piping: indefinites take scope over their island, which then itself takes scope.

中文翻译:

替代方案的范围:不确定性和孤岛

我认为替代表示表达式通过获取范围与它们的语义上下文进行交互。通过对英语中不定词的实证关注,我展示了这种方法如何改进使用逐点组合来颠覆孤岛的标准替代语义架构,以及更普遍的不定词的原位方法。与基于逐点组合的语法不同,基于范围的替代管理是彻底分类的,当一个岛上出现多个替代来源时不会产生不足的读数,并且与绑定的标准处理方法兼容。与不定词的所有原位(伪范围)处理不同,当运算符绑定到不定词时,依靠真正的范围机制可以防止过度生成。我的账户只依赖函数应用,一些范围获取机制,和两个自由应用的类型转换器:第一个是 Karttunen (Linguist Philos 1(1):3–44, 1977 . https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351935 ) proto-question operator,又名 Partee's (in: Groenendijk , de Jongh, Stokhof (eds) Studies in Discourse representation Theory and the theory of generalized quantifiers, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986 ) IDENT,第二个可以从 Karttunen (1977) 传统中现有的问题语义学方法中提取出来)。这些类型转换器形成了 LIFT 的分解,这是熟悉的将值映射到作用域接受器的函数。替代生成表达式的特殊范围是通过(滚雪球式的)范围染色管道产生的:不定词占据了他们的岛屿的范围,然后它本身占据了范围。1007/BF00351935) proto-question operator, aka Partee's (in: Groenendijk, de Jongh, Stokhof (eds) Studies in discourse representation theory and the theory of generalized quantifiers, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986 ) IDENT ,第二个可以分解Karttunen (1977) 传统中问题语义的现存方法。这些类型转换器形成了 LIFT 的分解,这是熟悉的将值映射到作用域接受器的函数。替代生成表达式的特殊范围是通过(滚雪球式的)范围染色管道产生的:不定词占据了他们的岛屿的范围,然后它本身占据了范围。1007/BF00351935) proto-question operator, aka Partee's (in: Groenendijk, de Jongh, Stokhof (eds) Studies in discourse representation theory and the theory of generalized quantifiers, Foris, Dordrecht, 1986 ) IDENT ,第二个可以分解Karttunen (1977) 传统中问题语义的现存方法。这些类型转换器形成了 LIFT 的分解,这是熟悉的将值映射到作用域接受器的函数。替代生成表达式的特殊范围是通过(滚雪球式的)范围染色管道产生的:不定词占据了他们的岛屿的范围,然后它本身占据了范围。第二个可以从 Karttunen (1977) 传统中现有的问题语义学方法中提取出来。这些类型转换器形成了 LIFT 的分解,这是熟悉的将值映射到作用域接受器的函数。替代生成表达式的特殊范围是通过(滚雪球式的)范围染色管道产生的:不定词占据了他们的岛屿的范围,然后它本身占据了范围。第二个可以从 Karttunen (1977) 传统中现有的问题语义学方法中提取出来。这些类型转换器形成了 LIFT 的分解,这是熟悉的将值映射到作用域接受器的函数。替代生成表达式的特殊范围是通过(滚雪球式的)范围染色管道产生的:不定词占据了他们的岛屿的范围,然后它本身占据了范围。
更新日期:2019-08-26
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