Dogs, Bitches and other Creatures  

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Rohdenburg, Gunther

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 4 no. 2 (Jun. 1985), page 117-136.

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In an attempt to uphold a specific constraint on sentential ambiguity Kempson (1980) has proposed an elaborate framework for dealing with the semantic duality of items such as dog. Her analysis culminates in a duality principle relating the specific and the general interpretation of the terms in question. These proposals are shown to have a number of serious shortcomings. First, they do not allow for the fact that the two relevant interpretations may vary in strength, and that independently of each other. Second, the duality principle is inadequate in several respects. In a number of sets containing just two members like dog and bitch, the principle is incapable of establishing precisely the specific interpretation of the general term. Nor does it correctly predict the absence of such specific uses in certain cases. Worse still, the principle is incompatible with the fact that the kind of duality under study is also found in a great variety of multiple sets. In addition, there are analogous phenomena associated with various types of part-whole relations which are not captured by the principle. Finally, as was shown in Horn (1983), case in which a given term functions as its own hyponym may originate in other ways than those predicted by Kempson's thesis.

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