A Semantic Characterization of Natural Language Determiners  

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Keenan, Edward L. ; Stavi, Jonathan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 9 no. 3 (Aug. 1986), page 253-326.

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The principle goal of this paper is to characterize the possible determiner denotations of English. Our major result is given by the Conservativity Theorem in section 2. It shows that the extensive and varied class of determiners (dets) we consider in section 1 all satisfy a very strong constraint on their semantic interpretation which we call Conservativity. The constraint strengthens Universal 3 of Barwise and Cooper (1981), and the theorem provides an explanation for the universal. In section 3 we discuss several linguistically motivated subclasses of dets. In two cases, classes distinguished by B&C are shown to extend in an enlightening way to the larger class of dets we consider. In a third case, the indefinite dets, we offer an alternative definition which we feel, to be simpler and descriptively more adequate. Two new classes are defined in terms of which a second universal is posited. That generalization leads to our second major result: the (In)effability Theorems, which place a certain constraint on the expressive power of English dets.

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