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Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of Adjective Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of Adjective Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond./
作者:	Cong, Yan.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	185 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-05B.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28776660
ISBN:	9798496525282

Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of Adjective Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond.
Cong, Yan.

Competition in Natural Language Meaning: The Case of Adjective Constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Beyond. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 185 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Utterances compete with each other. Rational speakers choose an utterance that is true, informative, and relevant, and listeners reason about that choice. As a consequence, pragmatic listeners make inferences about other possible utterances (so-called alternatives). In the well-studied case of Scalar Implicature (henceforth SI), pragmatic enrichment yields the inference that more informative alternatives are false, or at least that the speaker doesn't believe them. A central question in the SI literature is what counts as an alternative of a given utterance, due to what is known as the symmetry problem: without constraints on alternatives, every potential alternative ? has a symmetric partner (roughly, not ?), whose existence preempts any SI about ?. Consequently, theories of formal alternatives have been proposed (Katzir, 2007). However, relatively few studies concern Non-Scalar Implicature (henceforth NSI) (Rett, 2015). This dissertation argues that the interpretation of adjectival constructions in Mandarin Chinese involves non-scalar competition, that a kind of symmetry problem arises even for NSIs, and that standard (e.g., Katzirian) theories of formal alternatives do not solve the problem. I propose to associate gradient costs with structural alternatives to break symmetry.

ISBN: 9798496525282Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Adjectives

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