한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보 (Language and Information)
- 제1권
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- Pages.67-105
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- 1997
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
Information Articulation and Truth Conditions of Existential Sentences
초록
This paper investigates the semantics of English there existential sentences. By examining discourse functions and pragmatic facts, it accounts for semantic facts which have not been discussed elsewhere. Further, it is a new attempt to incorporate information-theoretic notions into formal semantics. I propose that existential statements as expressing Austinian propositions. The proposed meanings account for the fact that post-copular NPs cannot constitute the restruction of an adverb of quantification nor admit a partitive reading.
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