NPI licensing in temporal clauses
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory(2010)
摘要
This paper offers a systematic semantically-based approach to NPI licensing in temporal clauses based on Beaver and Condoravdi ( 2003 , in progress ). It motivates the presuppositional nature of temporal clauses and shows how temporal ordering induces an ordering of semantic strength in each case. The proposed analysis is uniform across veridical and non-veridical readings of before and brings under the semantic fold seemingly exceptional or pragmatically-based cases of NPI licensing observed with after, since and until . Crucial throughout is the more restricted, presupposition-dependent notion of entailment, Strawson entailment, proposed by von Fintel ( 1999 ). The paper also relates Strawson entailment to the alternative-based analysis of NPIs by Krifka ( 1995 ), proposing a particular kind of contextual update, Strawson update, for calculating informational strength.
更多查看译文
关键词
NPI licensing,Semantics of temporal clauses,Veridical and non-veridical before,Strawson entailment,NPI-triggered alternatives,Semantic and pragmatic presuppositions,Contextual entailments
AI 理解论文
溯源树
样例
生成溯源树,研究论文发展脉络