《亞原子語義學》是1990年由特倫斯·帕森斯提出的一個理論。
基本介紹
- 中文名:亞原子語義學
- 外文名:Subatomic Semantics
- 提出者:由特倫斯·帕森斯
亞原子語義學(Subatomic Semantics)是由特倫斯·帕森斯(Terence Parsons)提出,相關著作發表在1990年,名為 Events in the Semantics of English —— A Study in Subatomic Semantics. 該理論建立在戴維森(Davidson)的事件語義學的理論基礎上,是對戴維森的理論的改善。
比如,“Jones buttered the toastwith a knife in the bathroom”可利用事件語義學的理論描述為:
攢媯 BUTTER(e, JONES,THE TOAST)∧INSTRUMENT (e, AKNIFE) ∧LOCATION (e, THEBATHROOM)]
該句式蘊含了
攢媯 BUTTER(e, JONES,THE TOAST) ∧LOCATION(e,THE BATHROOM) ]
也蘊含了
攢媯 BUTTER (e, JONES, THE TOAST )]
但是卻不能蘊含原句的被動式,而“Jones buttered the toastwith a knife in the bathroom”在亞原子語義學中可以被描述為:
攢 (BUTTERING ( e ) ∧AGENT ( e, JONES) ∧THEME (e, THE TOAST)∧WITH(e, A KNIFE)∧ IN (e, THE BATHROOM)))
讀作:
For some event e,
e is a buttering, and
the agent [subject] of e is Jones,and
the theme[object] of e is the toast,and
the instrument of e is a knife, and
the location of e is in the bathroom,and
e culminated at some time in thepast.