A Note on the Syntax of Quantity in English
A Note on the Syntax of Quantity in English
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关于英语数量语法的注解
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179163.003.0008
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发表时间：
2005
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1.1
通讯作者：
Richard S. Kayne
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作者：
Richard S. Kayne
许多和一些形容词修饰不发音的名词NUMBER，同样的情况也适用于修饰AMOUNT。这反映了普遍语法的一个更广泛的性质，即普遍语法排除了单个形容词同时表示大/小和数的可能性。这一属性反过来又可以被看作普遍语法的一个特例，即每个词项最多只能有一个可解释的句法特征（分解原则）。分析是扩展到几个和相当多的，以数量和范围和极性的问题。
Manyandfeware adjectival modifiers of an unpronounced noun NUMBER and the same holds formuchandlittleas modifiers of AMOUNT. This reflects a broader property of UG, namely that UG excludes the possibility that a single adjective could simultaneously express what is expressed bylarge/smalland what is expressed bynumber. This property in turn can be seen as a special case of UG imposing a maximum of one interpretable syntactic feature per lexical item (Principle of Decompositionality). The analysis is extended toa fewandquite a few, tonumerousand to questions of scope and polarity.