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Maximality in the Semantics of Modified Numerals.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Maximality in the Semantics of Modified Numerals./
作者:	Buccola, Brian Anthony.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
面頁冊數:	176 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-10A.
標題:	Language. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28265912
ISBN:	9798708704092

Maximality in the Semantics of Modified Numerals.
Buccola, Brian Anthony.

Maximality in the Semantics of Modified Numerals. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 176 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2015.

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This thesis develops a new theory of the semantics of modified numerals-a central topic in current linguistic research. The theory arises from a detailed investigation of a new paradigm in the interpretation of modified numerals. Specifically, numerical expressions like less than n and between m and n sometimes convey maximality, other times minimality, and still other times neither, depending on their linguistic environment. For instance, the sentence Between five and ten guests arrived late indicates that the maximum (or total) number of guests who arrived late is between five and ten, whereas the sentence Between 20 and 30 potatoes can fill that sack indicates that the minimum number of potatoes that can fill that sack is between 20 and 30. Conversely, the sentence Between three and five students lifted the piano together conveys neither maximality nor minimality: it is compatible with, say, a group of two students or a group of seven students having lifted the piano together, just as long as at least one group of three to five students did so too.Building on previous works that deal with similar 'flips' between maximality and minimality (Beck and Rullmann 1999; von Fintel, Fox, and Iatridou 2014), I propose that the lexical semantics of certain numeral modifiers involves an 'informativity'-based maximality component, where the ordering of numbers that maximality operates on is based on how informative they are relative to some property of numbers. The crux of the theory is that, for a number to be maximally informative, sometimes it must be the largest, other times the smallest, and still other times it need not be either. This move to maximal informativity results in a theory that captures the full range of data discussed in the thesis. Along the way, I also propose and examine in detail two fairly standard (but ultimately unsuccessful) analyses of a subset of the paradigmatic data (maximal and non-maximal readings), where maximality is of the 'standard' kind, i.e. based on the natural ordering of numbers. The availability of maximal and non-maximal readings is captured either by flexible scope (on one account) or by the optional presence of the maximality component (on the other account). Both theories, however, face overgeneration problems, and neither theory is able to derive genuinely 'minimal' readings.

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520 $a Cette these propose une nouvelle theorie de la semantique des expressions numeriques modifiees-un sujet central de la recherche recente en linguistique. Cette theorie est le resultat d'une etude detaillee d'un nouveau paradigme d'interpretation des expressions numeriques modifiees. Plus precisement, les expressions numeriques telles que moins de n et entre m et n servent parfois a exprimer un minimum, un maximum, ou aucun des deux, en fonction de leur environnement linguistique. Par exemple, la phrase Entre cinq et dix invites sont arrives en retard sert a affirmer que le nombre maximal (ou total) d'invites qui sont arrives en retard se trouve entre cinq et dix, alors que la phrase Entre 20 et 30 patates peuvent remplir ce sac signifie que le nombre minimal de patates necessaires a remplir le sac se trouve entre 20 et 30. A l'inverse, la phrase Entre trois et cinq etudiants ont souleve le piano ensemble ne sert a exprimer ni un maximum ni un minimum. Cette phrase est compatible avec une situation ou un groupe de deux ou de sept etudiants ont souleve un piano ensemble, tant qu'un groupe de trois a cinq etudiants l'a fait aussi.En me basant sur des travaux anterieurs portant sur de telles alternances de sens entre l'expression d'un maximum et un minimum (Beck and Rullmann 1999; von Fintel, Fox, and Iatridou 2014), je propose que certains modificateurs d'expressions numeriques possedent dans leur semantique lexicale une composante de maximisation « d'informativite », selon laquelle l'ordonnancement des nombres pertinent a la maximisation est base sur la valeur d'information de ces nombres relativement a une propriete des nombres. Le coeur de cette theorie est que parfois, pour qu'un nombre soit maximalement informatif, il doit etre le plus eleve alors que dans d'autres circonstances, il doit etre le moins eleve, et parfois il ne doit etre aucun des deux. Ce passage vers la maximisation du contenu informatif donne lieu a une theorie qui rend compte de toute l'etendue des donnees de cette these.Au passage, je proposerai et examinerai en detail deux analyses relativement communes (mais ultimement infructueuses) d'un sous-ensemble des donnees du paradigme des alternances maximales/non-maximales, ou la maximalite est du type « standard », c'est-a-dire basee sur l'ordre naturel des nombres. La disponibilite des lectures maximales et non-maximales est expliquee soit par la flexibilite de la portee (selon une analyse) ou par la presence optionnelle d'une composante de maximalite (selon une autre). Toutefois, les deux theories font face a des problemes de surgeneration et aucune des deux n'arrive a produire des lectures minimales adequates.
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