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Toole, Janine.

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The semantic interpretation of definite noun phrases: Uniqueness intuitions, telescope anaphora, and strong and weak readings in donkey sentences.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The semantic interpretation of definite noun phrases: Uniqueness intuitions, telescope anaphora, and strong and weak readings in donkey sentences./
作者:	Toole, Janine.
面頁冊數:	236 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-01, Section: A, page: 1520.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-01A.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ24358
ISBN:	9780612243583

The semantic interpretation of definite noun phrases: Uniqueness intuitions, telescope anaphora, and strong and weak readings in donkey sentences.
Toole, Janine.

The semantic interpretation of definite noun phrases: Uniqueness intuitions, telescope anaphora, and strong and weak readings in donkey sentences. - 236 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-01, Section: A, page: 1520.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University (Canada), 1997.

The unifying theme of this thesis is the interpretation of definite noun phrases. Three outstanding issues relating to their interpretation are addressed. The first issue concerns the uniqueness implications associated with definite noun phrases. Unlike the Russellian and familiarity approaches which argue that the basic characteristic that differentiates definite noun phrases from other noun phrases is uniqueness or anaphoricity, I argue that the basic characteristic of a definite noun phrase is the relation that holds between its denotation and its domain restriction. That is, on the analysis I propose the relation between a definite noun phrase's denotation and its domain restriction is one of equality (denotation = domain restriction). The relation between an indefinite noun phrase's denotation and its domain restriction is one of subsumption (denotation $\le$ domain restriction).

ISBN: 9780612243583Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

The semantic interpretation of definite noun phrases: Uniqueness intuitions, telescope anaphora, and strong and weak readings in donkey sentences.
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520 $a The unifying theme of this thesis is the interpretation of definite noun phrases. Three outstanding issues relating to their interpretation are addressed. The first issue concerns the uniqueness implications associated with definite noun phrases. Unlike the Russellian and familiarity approaches which argue that the basic characteristic that differentiates definite noun phrases from other noun phrases is uniqueness or anaphoricity, I argue that the basic characteristic of a definite noun phrase is the relation that holds between its denotation and its domain restriction. That is, on the analysis I propose the relation between a definite noun phrase's denotation and its domain restriction is one of equality (denotation = domain restriction). The relation between an indefinite noun phrase's denotation and its domain restriction is one of subsumption (denotation $\le$ domain restriction).
520 $a On this view uniqueness intuitions are a by-product of the relation between a noun phrase's denotation, its domain restriction, and its potential referents. Specifically, uniqueness intuitions arise when there is a one-to-one correspondence between a noun phrase's denotation, its domain restriction, and its potential referents. This approach accounts for the full range of uniqueness data. In addition, it has interesting ramifications for the debate on whether uniqueness is asserted or presupposed.
520 $a The second issue I deal with concerns the use of telescope anaphora. A telescope noun phrase is a singular noun phrase whose antecedent is a universal quantifier in a previous clause (i.e. the pronoun is outside the scope of the universal quantifier). Telescope examples are problematic because most theories of discourse semantics do not allow universal noun phrases to bind noun phrases that are outside their scope. In this thesis I argue that telescope anaphora can be readily accounted for by the previously motivated semantic processes of abstraction and distribution. An advantage of this analysis is that it can account for a greater range of examples than the telescope examples considered previously. Furthermore, the analysis correctly predicts that examples which combine dependent plural pronouns and telescope noun phrases are infelicitous. Although I focus primarily on the question of how a telescope construction should be analyzed, I also consider the question of the function of the telescope construction and the conditions which license the use of this construction.
520 $a The third and final issue I deal with in this thesis concerns the strong and weak readings of donkey sentences. Previous analyses find the source of the ambiguity in either the subject noun phrase or the definite donkey pronoun. My analysis is similar to the former in that I argue that the source of the ambiguity is the subject noun phrase. However, my analysis differs from previous analyses in that I argue that the strong/weak ambiguity is due to the sensitivity of determiners to the topic structure of the discourse. To this end I modify the way that determiners are interpreted to include the effect of topic structure. This analysis predicts the ambiguity in relative clause donkey sentences while maintaining non-ambiguity in non-donkey sentences. Two further advantages of my approach are that it provides the correct interpretation for donkey sentences which contain multiple indefinites within the subject relative clause and, in addition, the analysis accounts for the existence of strong and weak readings in telescope constructions, readings which have not been previously noted in the literature.
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