The Semantic Analysis and Representation of 'Hai-NP-Ne' Construction with NP Quoted from Context

摘要

This paper mainly analyzes the semantics of three types of "hai-NP-ne" construction with NP quoted from context, formalizes their semantics with the scale structure, and compares similarities and differences among these three types of construction semantics. It is found that all these three types of "hai-NP-ne" are at the lower point of entailing scales. Meanwhile, three different types of entailing scales, including likelihood scale, felicity scale, and truth value scale, are activated by the various types of verbs that are omitted in the "hai-NP-ne" construction. As a result, various meanings are derived.