【作者】 陈琳琳；

【导师】 王左立；

【作者基本信息】 南开大学 ， 逻辑学， 2013， 博士

【摘要】 自Peter Geach (1962)提出最初的驴子句“Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it."以来,该语言现象就成为语言逻辑领域和语言学领域所关注的重要问题。针对驴子句所涉及的不定名词、量词、辖域等问题,不同领域的学者们从不同方面对该语言现象进行了形式的和非形式的解释和说明,并发展出了针对处理该语言现象的相关形式语义理论。可以说,驴子句研究促进了自上世纪八十年代以来的动态语义研究。鉴于驴子句对以英语为主要研究对象的语义研究的重要推动作用,近年来,国内学者们纷纷探讨了汉语中的驴子句现象,并主要对汉语中驴子句的分类及表现形式作了大量的研究。本文在这样的大背景下,尝试借鉴处理英语驴子句的一种语义理论—话语表现理论(Discourse Representation Theory,简称DRT)来处理汉语驴子句。这一工作的关键步骤首先是要了解DRT对英语驴子句处理的基本思想和框架；第二,针对英语驴子旬现象的基本特征,对国内已有的汉语驴子句分类研究进行总结和归纳,给出典型的汉语驴子句类型;第三,在DRT框架的基础上,针对汉语驴子句所涉及的句法和语义对原有的DRT构造进行补充和改造,使其成为能够处理汉语驴子句相关语句的理论DRTc,而后我们尝试在DRTc下对汉语驴子句进行处理和解释。文章主要的创新,首先是对国内汉语驴子句已有的研究成果进行梳理,并归纳整理出几类典型的汉语驴子句；第二是尝试对DRT框架进行补充和改造,使其能够囊括与汉语驴子句相关的句法和语义内容,并随之尝试在调适后的DRTc下对几类汉语驴子句进行解释和处理；另外,就自然语言语句的信息承载功能,并考虑影响语义的多种因素,我们尝试将语句的确定性语义解释置于信息交流的过程中,尝试对DRT已有的模型进行扩充,将信息交流双方的背景知识置于模型的结构中,使得一语句的确定语义解释具有相对性,即相对于交流双方的背景知识,以便更好地实现语句作为信息载体的流通和传输功能。更多还原

【Abstract】 Since Peter Geach(1962) put forward the original donkey sentence "Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.", this linguistic problem has become an important research object in the fields of logic and linguistics. As to those problems involved in donkey sentence, researchers from different fields have given formal and informal explanations about it from different aspects. They also developed relative formal semantic theories in order to solve this problem. We could say that researches on donkey sentence have speeded the research of dynamic semantics since80th of last century.Because those researches on donkey sentences have promoted the development of the semantic research which is mainly about English, scholars begin to discuss Chinese donkey sentences from those years. They also made a lot of researches on types or patterns of manifestation of Chinese donkey sentences. On such a background, we try to analyze Chinese donkey sentences by Discourse Representation Theory (DRT for short) which could process English donkey sentences. There are some key steps about this work:First, we have to know the basic thought and framework of DRT which could be used to analyze English donkey sentences; second, we have to summarize domestic researches on Chinese donkey sentences’classifications and give typical forms of Chinese donkey sentences based on the fundamental characters of English donkey sentences; third, based on DRT’s framework, we try to add something new ideas to the syntax and semantics of DRT for the researches about Chinese donkey sentences. This modification will make DRT be a correlative theory to Chinese donkey sentences which we could use DRTc to represent it. Finally we could try to solve Chinese donkey sentences and give their explanations on DRTc.The main creativity of this dissertation lies in some aspects as follow:first, we have summarized those domestic researches on Chinese donkey sentences, and distinguished several typical forms of Chinese donkey sentences; second, we try to make some modifications for DRT’s framework. We make it contain syntax and semantic contents associated with Chinese donkey sentences and give processions and explanations of those kinds of Chinese donkey sentences on the frame of adjusted DRTc; furthermore, in the consideration of the function of bearing information of natural language and those factors affecting its semantics, we try to give a definite explanation of a sentence in the process of information exchanges and try to expand DRT’s model. We put the background knowledge of the two sides of information exchanging in one model, which makes the definite explanation of a sentence is relative, that is to say on different background knowledge of exchanging, the semantics of a sentence could be different, so that will better reflect function of circulating and conveying of sentences as information bearers.更多还原