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本章集中讨论最小语义学的基石——命题论面临的疑难案例及其阐释方法。命题论的观点是,相关于话语语境每个合乎语法的陈述句都表达一个完整命题。本领域的理论家批判命题论最为常见的理由是存在所谓的“不完整表达式”。作者首先介绍了学界基于“不完整性直觉”对命题论提出的质疑,然后讨论了非最小论立场对这些疑难案例的阐释路径,最后转向最小论对这些问题的回应,勾勒出最小论者可以选用的一系列策略,最终证明不完整性直觉并不能表明命题论是错误的,因此最小论必须予以摒弃这一观点也就不能令人信服。
This chapter focuses on the cornerstone of minimal semantics - the difficult case of propositional theory and its interpretation. The propositional view is that every grammatical statement associated with a discourse context expresses a complete proposition. The most common reason that theorists in the field criticize the theses is that there is a so-called “incomplete expression.” At first, the author introduces that the academic circles question the propositional theory based on “incompleteness intuition ”, and then discusses the non-minimalist interpretation of these difficult cases, and finally turns to the minimalism response to these questions, A series of strategies that can be selected by the author ultimately prove that the intuition of incompleteness does not indicate that the propositional theory is wrong and therefore the opinion that the minimum theory must be abandoned can not be convincing.