如果是什么？

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI:10.1515/zfs-2023-2004

Wenshan Li, Jiang Liu

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摘要

摘要本文运用文献资料和经验证据，驳斥了“如果”问题是成语的说法，并提出“如果”和“如果”条件句是句法和语义结合的结果。有进一步的证据表明，什么可以是命题回指，它发生在不同的语境中，而不是局限于假设问题。对在动态句法框架下形成的命题的句法和语义特性的形式化表征，展示了这个词如何作为对话者之间互动的机制，对英语话语的解释做出语义和句法贡献。

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What is what if?

Abstract With literature and empirical evidence, this article argues against the existing claim that what if-questions are idioms and proposes that they are the result of the syntactic and semantic combination of what and if-conditionals. With further evidence, it is argued that what can be a propositional anaphor which occurs in different contexts, rather than being restricted to what if-questions. A formal characterization of the syntactic and semantic properties of the propositional what is formulated in the framework of Dynamic Syntax, demonstrating how this word makes semantic and syntactic contributions to the interpretation of utterances in English as a mechanism of interaction between interlocutors.

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Multiple-

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1.10

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20 weeks

期刊介绍： The aim of the journal is to promote linguistic research by publishing high-quality contributions and thematic special issues from all fields and trends of modern linguistics. In addition to articles and reviews, the journal also features contributions to discussions on current controversies in the field as well as overview articles outlining the state-of-the art of relevant research paradigms. Topics: -General Linguistics -Language Typology -Language acquisition, language change and synchronic variation -Empirical linguistics: experimental and corpus-based research -Contributions to theory-building