按规则同指的关联主义语义解释

The Relationist Semantic Account of De jure Coreference

自然语言中存在着一类特殊的同指事实——按规则同指,语言胜任主体仅凭语言能力就可以知道这类事实。基于语义要求概念,关联主义语义学为这类事实提供了语义解释策略。该策略的成功依赖于语义必然性论证的成立,这一论证以语义要求为中项勾连起语言理解和语义知识,已有的反驳针对该论证的两个前提之一。然而,该策略真正的问题在于,语义必然性论证并不能建立起语义要求作为解释项的唯一性,语义要求的唯一性只建立在它的特设性上。

In natural languages,there is a specific coreference fact,de jure coreference,which a competent subject could know merely by her linguistic competence.Based on the notion of semantic requirement,semantic relationism has offered a semantic strategy for this specific coreference fact.The success of this strategy counts on the establishment of the argument of semantic necessity,which connects the linguistic understanding and semantic knowledge with the semantic requirement as the intermediate term.The extant refutations always aim at either of the two premises of the above argument.However,the real problem of this strategy is that the argument of semantic necessity itself cannot establish the explanatory uniqueness of semantic requirement,which merely relies on its ad hocness.