意味論研究会2016年1月8日

とき：

2016年1月8日 3:30pm

ところ：

慶應義塾大学 三田キャンパス 南別館７階

発表１

講演者：

三山美緒子 (東京大学)

タイトル：

The proper treatment of the wide scope or reading in the English either … or … construction

概要：

The main concern of this talk is the availability of the wide scope or reading in the English either … or … construction and its interaction with the behavior of either. It is first pointed out that, even though there are several analyses of the either … or … construction argued for in previous studies (the movement analysis (Larson (1985)), the focus alternative semantics analysis (Beck & Kim (2006)), and the ellipsis analysis (Schwarz (1999))), there is a data set that is a hole in the empirical coverage of previous analyses. I propose that by extending the choice function analysis of disjunction (Winter (2001), Schlenker (2006)) to the either … or … construction, this data set is straightforwardly explained.

発表２

講演者：

菅原彩加 (三重大学)

タイトル：

Viewing English rise-fall-rise through experimental and corpus data

概要：

Jackendoff (1972) observes that the meaning of an ambiguous sentence such as ‘All the men didn’t go’ could be disambiguated by intonation. That is, the falling intonation at the end of the sentence indicates the All>Not reading, while if the sentence ends with a rising intonation, the sentence has the Not>All reading. (See Büring 1997, 2003 and Constant 2012, 2014 for formal analyses by assuming Topic marking or Constrastive Topic; See Ward and Hirschberg 1985 for counterarguments to the ability of intonation to disambiguate). In this talk, I will present some (preliminary) corpus data to support a prediction that if (rise-)fall-rise intonation then Not>All reading and not vice versa – which supports Constant’s analysis. I will also present results from comprehension task by English-speaking children and adults that show that they do reach different interpretations depending on the difference in intonation.