Both in linguistics and in psycholinguistics there is some debate about how rich or thin lexico-semantic representations are. Traditionally, in formal semantics but also in philosophy of language as well as in cognitive pragmatics, lexical meanings have been thought to be simple stable denotations or functions. In this paper, we present and discuss a number of interpretational phenomena of which the analysis proposed in the literature makes crucial use of rich meanings. The phenomena in question are cases where the assignment of truth-conditional contents to utterances seems to follow rules that do not operate on simple stable denotations or any other kind of ‘thin’ meanings but where composition takes rich structured representations as input. We also discuss problems for such accounts, which are mostly based on the inability of extant rich meanings accounts to explain many other interpretational phenomena, and we discuss the solutions that have been proposed to solve them. Furthermore, we address the discussion whether the informationally rich meanings are part of semantics, and more specifically part of the lexicon, or whether this information should be ascribed to more general world knowledge.

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论词汇的本质：丰富词汇意义的现状

在语言学和心理语言学中，都存在一些关于词汇语义表征的丰富或薄弱的争论。传统上，在形式语义学以及语言哲学以及认知语用学中，词汇意义一直被认为是简单稳定的外延或功能。在本文中，我们提出并讨论了一些解释现象，文献中提出的分析对这些解释现象至关重要地利用了丰富的含义。所讨论的现象是这样的情况：将真值条件内容分配给话语似乎遵循的规则并不适用于简单的稳定外延或任何其他类型的“薄”含义，而是组合将丰富的结构化表示作为输入。我们还讨论了此类帐户的问题，这主要是基于无法解释许多其他解释现象的现存丰富含义，我们讨论了已提出的解决方案。此外，我们讨论了信息丰富的含义是否是语义的一部分，更具体地说是词典的一部分，或者这些信息是否应该归因于更普遍的世界知识。