A New Standard of Comparison
A New Standard of Comparison
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新的比较标准
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2012
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通讯作者:
J. Merchant
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作者:
P. Alrenga;Christopher Kennedy;J. Merchant
An intricate and well-known range of facts involving binding constraints, ellipsis, and scopal interactions indicate that the surface position of the standard constituent in English comparatives (the phrase headed by than) marks the scope of comparison (Gawron 1995, Bhatt and Pancheva 2004). For example, (1) is semantically ambiguous between the “sensible” reading in (1a), in which the modal verb require occurs within the scope of the comparison, and the “unlikely” reading in (1b), in which the comparison appears within the scope of the modal.