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
DOI:
10.1093/jos/fft018
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发表时间:
2014
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通讯作者:
Stephanie Solt
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文献类型:
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作者:
Stephanie Solt
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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2.2
作者:
Gennaro Chierchia
通讯作者:
Gennaro Chierchia
影响因子:
0.7
作者:
M. Krifka
通讯作者:
M. Krifka
DOI:
10.7282/t3wh2q8c
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
Semantics and Linguistic Theory
影响因子:
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作者:
J. Rett
通讯作者:
J. Rett
DOI:
10.3765/salt.v4i0.2454
发表时间:
1994
期刊:
Semantics and Linguistic Theory
影响因子:
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作者:
J. Hoeksema
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J. Hoeksema
影响因子:
1.1
作者:
Richard S. Kayne
通讯作者:
Richard S. Kayne