讲座预告| Christopher D. Kennedy：Zeroing in on exclusively exclusive content

讲座摘要：

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.

主讲人简介：

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。