2005年1月7日: 中西公子, Some Comparative Constructions in Japanese；
小田登志子, Semantics of Exclamatives

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とき：
2005年1月7日（金）3:30pm
ところ：
東京大学教養学部／総合文化研究科（駒場Ｉキャンパス）10号館3階会議室
発表１
3:30pm
講演者：
中西公子 (University of Connecticut)
タイトル：
Some Comparative Constructions in Japanese
概要：
The central goal of this talk is to provide a mechanism of comparative quantification in the verbal domain. It is well known that adjectival comparatives involve a comparison of degrees associated with adjectives (e.g., in "John is taller then Mary", John's degree of tallness and Mary's degree of tallness are compared). It has been argued that, in nominal comparative constructions such as "more than five boys came", the relevant degree is associated with a cardinality of individuals. Extending this analysis to the verbal domain, I argue that, in some comparative constructions in Japanese, the degree of comparison is associated with an event argument.
発表２
5:00pm
講演者：
小田登志子（東京経済大学／University of Connecticut）
タイトル：
Semantics of Exclamatives
概要：
This paper investigates the semantics of exclamatives. I will argue that exclamatives are basically an instance of comparatives. Evidence is obtained from the negative island effect in exclamatives. An exclamative sentence What a tall boy John is! becomes ungrammatical when it is negated as in *What a tall boy John isn't! This is similar to the negative island effect in comparatives such as *John is taller than Mary isn't. I argue that comparatives and exclamatives share a core property, namely, that they contribute sets of degrees. The basic semantics of the above exclamative sentence can be analyzed as a comparison between John's maximal tallness and the degree the speaker expects in a given context.

意味論研究会
21世紀COE＜心とことば−進化認知科学的展開＞共催

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