Term answers and contextual change  

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Zimmermann, Thomas Ede ; Stechow, Arnim von

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Language Sciences vol. 22 no. 1 (1984), page 3-40.

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In this article, a pragmatic theory of the way in which NP answers to W'H questions affect the questioner's knowledge is developed. The theory makes essential use of the (standard) interpretation of noun phrases as generalized quantifiers. In particular, the theory makes use of a new functor * that operates on NP denotations, yielding the set of objects that the NP conveys information about. * can be defined within Montague's IL: if (1. translates a noun phrase, *(1. is AX[[\f P[(1.(P)~ P(x)] v V P[(1.(P)~ -, P(x)]]. This notion of aboutness becomes essential in the definition of the 'eliminative force' of an answer: everything that the questioner knows to be in *(1. is eliminated from the set of objects that the questioner wants to be informed about. A second result of the article is the formal definition of the positive or negative direction of closure a term indicates. We need these operations in order to account for the open and closed readings of answers. Although the motivationfor the concepts to be developed is pragmatic, the article may be read as well as a contribution to the semantics of terms, i.e. noun phrases. The notion of 'eliminative force of an answer' can also be defined within a propositional framework, but then the correlation between eliminativeness and aboutness of terms is lost.

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