Categorematic unreducible polyadic quantifiers in Lexical Resource Semantics
- Early work on quantification in natural languages showed that sentences like 'Every ape picked different berries', on the reading that the sets of berries picked by any two apes are not the same, can be logically represented with a single polyadic quantifier for the two nominal phrases. However, since that quantifier cannot be decomposed into two quantifiers for the two nominal phrases, a compositional semantic analysis of this reading is not possible under standard assumptions about syntax and semantics. This paper shows how a constraint-based semantics with Lexical Resource Semantics can define a systematic syntax-semantics interface which captures the reading in question with a polyadic quantifier.
| Author: | Frank RichterORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-734808 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.31 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/12/16 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Joint Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional (2016 : Warschau) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/13 |
| GND Keyword: | Quantor; Formale Semantik |
| Volume: | 23.2016 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 599 |
| Last Page: | 519 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
