讲座题目：Focus Sensitivity and Exhaustivity in Quantification

讲 座 人：胡建华 教授

主 持 人：雷茜 教授

讲座时间：7月12日（周三）15：00-16：30

讲座地点：英文学院会议室G209

讲座概要：It has been observed that the English universal A-quantifiers always and only exhibit different properties in terms of sensitivity and exhaustivity in focus interpretation. While always allows for a non-exhaustive interpretation, only can only have an exhaustive interpretation when associated with focus. Under Beaver and Clark’s (2003) analysis, the difference between always and only is accounted for by the former one’s dependency on the context and the latter one’s lexical encoding of a dependency on focus. This paper shows that besides these two kinds of A-quantifiers, Chinese has another type of A-quantifiers that can be grouped into neither the always-type nor the only-type in distribution and interpretation. These A-quantifiers may be termed as the intermediate type of A-quantifiers when compared with those at the two opposite sides represented by zong(shi) and zhi respectively. The intermediate type of A-quantifiers, represented by dou, bears the universal quantificational force as do zong(shi) and zhi, the Chinese counterparts to the English always and only. For instance, in the following sentence, dou may occur either with or without being associated with a focus.

讲座人简介：

胡建华，广东外语外贸大学外国语言文学学科建设云山工作室首席专家，中国社会科学院语言研究所二级教授、博士生导师，国务院政府特殊津贴专家；曾任《当代语言学》主编、当代语言学研究室主任、国际中国语言学学会执行秘书长。目前兼任上海外国语大学顾问教授、上海外国语大学语言研究院学术委员会主任。

研究领域涉及理论语言学、句法学、语义学、语用学、儿童语言获得与认知发展、心理语言学、跨语言比较句法、上古汉语句法等。论文刊于Nature Human Behaviour、Linguistics、The Linguistic Review、Journal of Pragmatics、Lingua以及《中国语文》《当代语言学》《外语教学与研究》《世界汉语教学》《外国语》《现代外语》《语言教学与研究》《语言研究》《语言科学》《汉语学报》等期刊。最近出版的英文著作有：Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives（Routledge，2019）、Interfaces in Grammar（Hu Jianhua & Pan Haihua, eds.，John Benjamins，2019）。