Structure preservation in comparatives
Structure preservation in comparatives
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10.3765/salt.v28i0.4413
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2018-10
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Alexis Wellwood
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Alexis Wellwood
可比性涉及不同的维度进行比较，但并不是所有的东西都是这样的：“更多的咖啡”涉及的是体积或重量，而不是温度，而“更多的咖啡”涉及的是数量，而不是体积或重量。一般而言，现有文献认为“More Cafee/Cafee”之间的差异反映了“More”这一形态句法上的歧义，因此它用光名词拼出了More-ER，用复数名词拼出了More-ER。在语义上，Med引入了一个变量超过度量函数(带约束)，而许多引入了基数函数。我主张另一种基于分解More-ER的单义理论，并通过比以前提出的更强的度量函数选择条件来解释观察到的约束可变性模式。
Comparatives involve various dimensions for comparison, but not anything goes: "more coffee" involves volume or weight, but not temperature, while "more coffees" involves number, not volume or weight. In general, the extant literature assumes that the difference between "more coffee/coffees" reflects a morphosyntactic ambiguity of "more", such that it spells out MUCH-ER with bare nouns, and MANY-ER with plural nouns. Semantically, MUCH introduces a variable over measure functions (with constraints), whereas MANY introduces a cardinality function. I argue for an alternative, univocal theory based on the decomposition MUCH-ER, and account for the observed patterns of constrained variability by means of a stronger condition on the selection of measure functions than has previously been proposed.