‘Even-문’의 해석

• 영문명: The Interpretation of ‘Even-Sentences.’
• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: 소상호(Sang Ho So)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제20호, 179~197쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2000.06.01

영문 초록

The purpose of this article is to analyze the meaning of ‘even’, showing that Lycan’s analysis and other quantifier accounts are problematic. Most writers on ‘even’ agree that the word makes some contribution to the meaning of sentences in which it figures. The word ‘even’ does not make a truth-conditional difference; it makes a difference only in conventional implicature. The felicity of an ‘even’-sentence S requires that S’ be more surprising than most true neighbors. ‘Even’ is a scalar term, since unexpectedness comes in degrees. In particular, ‘even’ functions neither as a universal quantifier, nor as a quantifier like most or many. The only quantified statement that ‘Even A is F’ implies is the existential claim “There is an x (namely, A) that is F.” ‘Even’ implies some type of unexpectedness, surprise, or unlikelihood. Moreover, this implication is part of the meaning of ‘even’.

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Abstract

I. 서론

II. 문형별 ‘even’의 양상

III. 한국어 조사〔까지, 마저, 조차〕

IV. ‘Even-문’의 해석

V. 결론

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