Some, Speaker Knowledge, and Subkinds✯

ESSLLI 2012 Student Session, A student session of the 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2012)

计算机科学;信息科学

Andrew Weir

Others  :  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-954/paper19.pdf
PID  :  29393

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

I provide an analysis of sentences with some combining withsubkind-denoting NPs, such as Some plant is growing through the wall of my room. In such sentences, there is epistemic uncertainty concerning the subkind, but not concerning the actual witness of the claim. I make use of the semantics proposed by [AOMB10b] for the Spanish epistemic indefinite algu´n, combined with the polysemy of common nouns between being individual-denoting and subkind-denoting [Kri95, Kra08], to pro- vide an analysis of such sentences.