跨语言的分布式和非分布式通用量化器的统一语义
Nina Haslinger1,2, Alain Noindonmon Hien3, Emil Eva Rosina4
1Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
Natural language & linguistic theory
|September 29, 2025
概括
像"每一个"和"所有"这样的普遍量化词有不同的含义. 本研究提出了一种统一的语义方法,将量化器解释与预言性质和补数联系起来,解释跨语言模式.
科学领域:
- 语言学的语言学.
- 语义学 是一个语义学.
- 正式语义是正式的语义.
背景情况:
- 普遍量化器表现出解释上的差异,其中一些只允许分布式含义 (例如,英语"every"),而另一些允许非分布式含义 (例如,英语"all").
- 传统的语言方法假定分布式和非分布式量化器的单独的词汇条目,无法解释分布性和补数之间的相关性.
- 在跨语言上,分布式的普遍量化器通常与单数补充配对,而非分布式量化器始终采用复数补充.
研究的目的:
- 为普遍量化器提出一个统一的词汇含义,它可以从分布式和非分布式解释中获得.
- 解释量化器分布性与其补充的数量 (单数/复数) 之间的跨语言相关性.
- 调查限制者预言的语义性质在确定量化器解释中的作用.
主要方法:
- 为通用定量器开发一个单一的词汇语义条目.
- 分析预言性质的语义贡献 (封闭在总和和量化) 量化解释.
- 检查跨语言数据,包括语言,其中相同的词汇项目在基于补数的解释上有所不同.
- 在分布式形式中提出一种形态语法元素,它限制了语义组合与原子个体的预言.
主要成果:
- 一个单一的词汇含义的普遍定量器可以导出非分布式的解释,当限制性预言被关闭在和和分布式的解释,当它是定量化.
- 补数的数量被证明是限制性命题的语义性质的结果,而不是独立的语法因素.
- 语言存在于相同的通用定量表达分布式或非分布式含义的语言中,取决于补充的数量.
- 一些语言的分布式通用量化器包含了额外的形态语法元素,表明与语义限制相关的结构复杂性.
结论:
- 该研究为分布式和非分布式的普遍量化提供了一个统一的语义解释,解决了传统的二分法.
- 量化器分布性和补数之间的相关性是从量化器的核心含义和限制器预言的语义性质之间的相互作用中得出的.
- 限制性命题的语义性质为量化形式的选择提供了比单独的形态语法数字更强大的解释.
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