This article treats the chunk‘lian…dou’an a complex conjunction on the ground that the sentence that follows the sentence in which the chunk ‘lian…dou’occurs is often incomplete.The interpretation of the incomp...This article treats the chunk‘lian…dou’an a complex conjunction on the ground that the sentence that follows the sentence in which the chunk ‘lian…dou’occurs is often incomplete.The interpretation of the incomplete sentence,or the sentence fragment,calls for the restoration of the elided constituents by reconstruction.Moreover,the proposition expressed by the sentence fragment is entailed by the proposition expressed by the sentence in which the chunk‘lian…dou’occurs.Following Montague’s rule-to-rule hypothesis,we can take the entailment inherent in the whole construction as the syntactic reflex in its semantics.Since the entailment is obviously induced by the chunk‘lian…dou’,we treat it as a complex conjunction.Section 1 demonstrates that the sentence that follows the sentence in which the chunk‘lian…dou’occurs is not independent and in many ways is similar to the ‘ruguo…(name)’construction.Section 2 develops a scalar model based on Fillmore et al (1988)for the semantic interpretation of the construction,and gives an account of a variety of ‘lian…dou’sentences.Section 3 addresses the pragmatic aspect of the construction.It also argues that the first proposition conjoined by ‘lian…dou’itself has the function of simultaneously meeting the Gricean Maxims of Relevance,Quality and Quantity,thus making the verbalization of the second proposition unnecessary.展开更多
文摘This article treats the chunk‘lian…dou’an a complex conjunction on the ground that the sentence that follows the sentence in which the chunk ‘lian…dou’occurs is often incomplete.The interpretation of the incomplete sentence,or the sentence fragment,calls for the restoration of the elided constituents by reconstruction.Moreover,the proposition expressed by the sentence fragment is entailed by the proposition expressed by the sentence in which the chunk‘lian…dou’occurs.Following Montague’s rule-to-rule hypothesis,we can take the entailment inherent in the whole construction as the syntactic reflex in its semantics.Since the entailment is obviously induced by the chunk‘lian…dou’,we treat it as a complex conjunction.Section 1 demonstrates that the sentence that follows the sentence in which the chunk‘lian…dou’occurs is not independent and in many ways is similar to the ‘ruguo…(name)’construction.Section 2 develops a scalar model based on Fillmore et al (1988)for the semantic interpretation of the construction,and gives an account of a variety of ‘lian…dou’sentences.Section 3 addresses the pragmatic aspect of the construction.It also argues that the first proposition conjoined by ‘lian…dou’itself has the function of simultaneously meeting the Gricean Maxims of Relevance,Quality and Quantity,thus making the verbalization of the second proposition unnecessary.
