文档介绍：linguistics “The central question of Reinhart’s long-await- Interface Strategies 45 Linguistic Inquiry Interface Strategies
ed study is how language is designed so that it Monograph Forty-five
Interface Strategies can be used by systems of thought, interpreta- Optimal and putations
Optimal and putations tion, and interaction in a manner appropriate to
Tanya Reinhart circumstances. One original thesis, rich in con-
sequences, is that putational system of
In this monograph Tanya Reinhart discusses
language that generates linguistic expressions is
strategies enabling the interface of different
distinct from putational strategies that
cognitive systems, which she identifies as
operate in cases of mismatch with properties of
the systems of concepts, inference, context, Tanya Reinhart
the systems that access internally generated
and sound. Her point of departure is Noam
expressions in language use. These ‘interface
Chomsky’s hypothesis that language is optimally
strategies,’ she argues, involve choice of an
designed—namely, that in many cases, the bare
‘petitor’ within a narrowly con-
minimum needed for constructing syntactic
structed reference set of options. This sophisti-
derivations is sufficient for the full needs of
cated and wide-ranging study, and the frame- Reinhart
the interface. Deviations from this principle
work it presents and explores in depth, should
are viewed as imperfections.
prove invaluable for further inquiry into the
The book covers in depth four areas of the
fundamental questions of language and thought,
interface: quantifier scope, focus, anaphora res-
and their place in the biological world and in
olution, and implicatures. The first question in
human life.”
each area is what makes putational sys-
—Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT
tem (CS, syntax) legible to the other systems at
the interface—how much of the information
“Interface Strategies is a carefully crafted study,
needed f