摘要
事件语义学研究中,学者们普遍认为谓语动词的事件变量受存在量化约束。文章对句子的语义和句子间的语义蕴含关系进行分析后发现:1)动词短语指称独元集时,谓语动词的事件变量实现为特定事件,不受存在量化约束;2)只有当动词短语指称多元集合时,谓语动词的事件变量才受存在量化约束。文章还考察了湘方言中湘阴话的助词'嘚'的存在量化意义,以及它对共现动词短语的语义限制,为上述发现提供了跨语言证据。
In the event semantics tradition,it’s generally assumed that event variables of predicative verbs are bound by existential operator.Based on an investigation of sentences’semantics and inter-sentential entailment,this study yields the following findings:1)event variables of predicative verbs realize as particular events when verb phrases denote singleton sets;and 2)they are bound by existential operator only when verb phrases denote multiple-member sets.The study also investigates the existential force of de,a particle in Xiangyin Dialect,and its semantic restriction for co-occurring verb phrases,and thus provides cross-linguistic evidence for the above findings.
作者
杨稼辉
伍雅清
Yang Jiahui;Wu Yaqing(College of Foreign Languages,Hunan University,Changsha Hunan 410082;School of Foreign Languages&Litreature,Hunan Institute of Science and Technology,Yueyang Hunan 414006)
出处
《语言科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第4期395-406,共12页
Linguistic Sciences
基金
国家社科基金一般项目(12BYY001),国家社科基金青年项目(16CYY005,17CYY062)
湖南省社科基金青年项目(16YBQ015)资助
关键词
事件变量
存在量化
特定事件
多元集合
独元集
event variable
existential quantification
particular event
multiple-member set
singleton set
