tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "QUANTIFICATIONAL DOMAINS AND RECURSIVE CONTEXTS"

The implicit delimiting or narrowing of the domain of quantification, ., in the case of "unselective quantifiers" such as the adverbs of quantification always, usually, mostly, etc., is a heavily contextdependent phenomenon that has much in common with anaphora, presupposition projection, the dynamics of reference time, reference location, etc., and other of the context-dependent phenomena discussed in Partee (1979). | QUANTIFICATIONAL DOMAINS AND RECURSIVE CONTEXTS Barbara Partee University of Massachusetts Department of Linguistics Amherst MA 01003 USA Internet partee@ Abstract The implicit delimiting or narrowing of the domain of quantification . in the case of unselective quantifiers such as the adverbs of quantification always usually mostly etc. is a heavily contextdependent phenomenon that has much in common with anaphora presupposition projection the dynamics of reference time reference location etc. and other of the context-dependent phenomena discussed in Partee 1979 . While many non-linguistic factors clearly play a role in such phenomena there are interesting issues at the intersection of discourse processing and sentence grammar since in addition to context as constructed at the discourse level there are subsentential local contexts which have limited lifespans and are constrained by aspects of sentence grammar both syntactic and semantic. So for example in the case of anaphora while a pronoun can get its value from an entirely non-linguistic context if the value of a pronoun is determined by a linguistic antecedent there are grammatical contraints on the possible structural relations that may hold between antecedent and pronoun as illustrated by the familiar pre-cede command conditions known since the early work of Ross and Langacker and illustrated in lab below with respect to the possibility of interpreting some people as the antecedent of they . la Some people complain loudly in the middle of the night and they make so much noise upstairs that one can t sleep. lb They make so much noise upstairs that one can t sleep and some people complain loudly in the middle of the night. In examples 2a-b we see a similar restriction on the possibility of restricting the domain of the quantifier usually by means of material accessible in the linguistic context and the relevant notion of accessibility turns out to be the same for the wide range of phenomena .