The Definite Article: Code and Context  

Oleh:

Renaud, Francis

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 13 no. 2 (May 1996), page 139-180.
Topik: numerous grammatical; analysing numerals
Fulltext: vol 13, no 2, p 139-180.pdf (1.92MB)

Isi artikel

Numerous grammatical items can only be understood if the context is taken into account. In order to provide a formal treatment of this problem, we introduce the nonon of knowledge base into linguistics. After having worked out a hard core system of rules for analysing numerals, definite articles, and indefinite articles, we give a thorough study of the French singular definite article le. This grammatical item has the particularity of not encoding a fixed information stored in the lexicon, but of running a program ofinformation processing We show that the referential computation can be made by a precise algorithm working on a definite stratum of the reader's knowledge base. In this framework, the uniqueness hypothesis of Russell becomes a guideline to retrieve memorized information. The algorithm accounts for deictic as well as anaphoric referential identifications. Our analysis proposes a unitary account for a large part of empirical data and reconciles the logical approach of Russell-Montague with the pragmatic approach of Hawkins.

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