Same and Different: Some Consequences for Syntax and Semantics  

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Carlson, Greg N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 10 no. 4 (Nov. 1987), page 531-566.

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The notion has been around for some time in semantics that sentences might be taken as denoting, describing, or corresponding to, event-like things rather than truth-values (e.g. events (Davidson, 1980), situations (Barwise and Perry, 1983), states of affairs (Jackendoff, 1976". Below I argue that such a view of sentence denotations, along with additional assumptions about the nature of semantic interpretation, yields a fairly natural means of accounting for the semantics of a certain class of English words, here exemplified by the post determiners same and different. Though the focus at present will be on these English words, the analysis is obviously intended to hold well beyond them (to include other words like "distinct", "separate", "similar"), and to be applicable to similar constructions in other languages. I do not intend this as a "knock-down-drag-out" argument for this particular view, as' too many questions about its feasibility remain, not the least of which is how to carry out its formal implementation. Rather, I will sketch an analysis within an 'event-based' framework, with considerable persuasive weight resting on the elegance of the analysis, or the lack thereof.

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