第63回
東海・関西意味論研究会
2025年10月5日 (日) 13時30分 (13:30 ~ onwards, 5 October 2025)
名古屋学院大学白鳥学舎 翼館303教室 (Nagoya Gakuin University, Shiratori Campas, Tsubasakan room 303)/Zoom
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研究発表 (Lecture):13:30~15:00
Shun Ihara (Tsuda University) and Kenta Mizutani (Aichi Prefectural University)
The Anatomy of Superlative Modifiers in Japanese
The Japanese superlative modifier sukunakutomo is often regarded as the counterpart of the English at least, as both share two interpretations, the epistemic and concessive interpretations (Nakanishi & Rullman 2009). This talk addresses four puzzles concerning sukunakutomo and argues that it should be analyzed as a (concessive) conditional.
(i) How does sukunakutomo convey a superlative meaning without employing a morphological superlative marker?
(ii) Unlike English at least, the epistemic interpretation of sukunakutomo depends on the scale it is associated with. Why is this the case?
(iii) Related to (ii), sukunakutomo differs from at least in that its acceptability is influenced not only by the associated scale but also by the discourse context. What accounts for this difference?
(iv) In Japanese, both the contrastive marker -wa and the compound word saitei—which contains the Sino-Japanese superlative morpheme sai-—can express superlative meanings similar to sukunakutomo. What kind of division of labor exists among these expressions?
研究発表 (Lecture):15:15~ onwards
八木 雄介(早稲田大学)
束縛のない弱交差現象について
この発表では,一見束縛関係がない弱交差の例 (Functional answerを要求する疑問文,a certainの作用域,ロバ文,依存代名詞)を検討します.また,類似する構造/意味であるにも関わらず弱交差を起こさない例(a different NP)も取り上げます.これらの例をChierchia (2000), Buring (2004), van Urk (2015)などに見られる弱交差の分析と照らし合わせ,より一般的な弱交差の分析に向けての課題を議論したいと思います.