Q-Adjectives and the Semantics of Quantity

Q-Adjectives and the Semantics of Quantity
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Q-形容词和数量语义

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10.1093/jos/fft018
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2014
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J. Semant.
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Stephanie Solt
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数量形容词(q -形容词)many,few,muchandlittle因其句法灵活性而从其他数量表达中脱颖而出,它们出现的位置可以被称为量词(许多学生参加),谓语(约翰的朋友很多),定语(许多学生),微分(远远超过一升)和状语(睡得太多)。这种广泛的分布对这一类的两个主要理论提出了挑战,这两个理论将它们视为个体的量化决定因素或谓词。本文对q -形容词作为度数集合的可分级谓词或度数上的可分级量词进行了分析。研究表明,这一建议允许对这些项目在它们出现的位置进行统一分析,同时也克服了竞争账户面临的几个问题,其中包括q形容词和“普通”形容词之间的差异,类似算子的行为很少,以及作为虚拟元素的使用。总的来说,这些发现指出了程度在数量语义中的核心作用。
The adjectives of quantity (Q-adjectives)many,few,muchandlittlestand out from other quantity expressions on account of their syntactic flexibility, occurring in positions that could be called quantificational (many students attended), predicative (John's friends were many), attributive (the many students), differential (much more than a liter) and adverbial (slept too much). This broad distribution poses a challenge for the two leading theories of this class, which treat them as either quantifying determiners or predicates over individuals. This article develops an analysis of Q-adjectives as gradable predicates of sets of degrees or (equivalently) gradable quantifiers over degrees. It is shown that this proposal allows a unified analysis of these items across the positions in which they occur, while also overcoming several issues facing competing accounts, among others the divergences between Q-adjectives and ‘ordinary’ adjectives, the operator-like behavior offewandlittle, and the use ofmuchas a dummy element. Overall the findings point to the central role of degrees in the semantics of quantity.
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