作者：     日期：2022-03-21

手机买球官方网站（中国）股份有限公司“当代语义学前沿问题”讲座

Christopher D. Kennedy

（美国芝加哥大学William H. Colvin讲座教授）

题目：Zeroing in on exclusively exclusive content（从zero及相关问题谈排他性语义的机制）

时间：2022年4月8日星期五上午10:00-11:30（北京时间）

语言：英语

地点：线上讲座（腾讯会议）

房间：950-875-618（密码：0408）

主办：手机买球官方网站（中国）股份有限公司

摘要：Bylilina and Nouwen (2018) use the NPI-licensing properties of zero to argue that plural count nouns must be analyzed as having domains with the structure of a complete lattice, containing minimal objects whose count is zero. In this paper, I consider a wider array of data which indicates that the traditional analysis of plural count noun domains as join semi-lattices, lacking minimal objects, is correct. It follows from this view that sentences in which zero combines with a plural count noun are contradictions, but they come to have contingent truth conditions, I claim, because exhaustification can sometimes return exclusively exclusive content. Building on recent proposals by Bassi, del Pinal and Sauerland (2021). I argue that the content of exhaustification just is exclusion of alternatives, and whether the prejacent is entailed depends on whether the exclusive proposition is not-at-issue vs. at-issue.

主讲人介绍：Christopher D. Kennedy现任美国芝加哥大学语言学系William H. Colvin讲座教授，并数度出任芝加哥大学语言学系主任。他因在程度语义学和主观意义的形式化等领域的开拓性研究被誉为国际语言学界最具影响力的中青年一代学者之一。近年来他主要关注等级性、主观性的来源、语用义的形式化等课题。

致谢：南京大学文科双一流建设中长期研究专项“汉语语义研究与新时代汉语语法理论创新”

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