Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives
Measure Phrases as Modifiers of Adjectives
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测量短语作为形容词的修饰语
DOI：
10.4000/rlv.1401
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
15.1
通讯作者：
R. Schwarzschild
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作者：
R. Schwarzschild
在一些语言中，量词短语可以与非比较形容词一起出现：5英尺高。我回答了关于这个结构的三个问题：(A)量词短语是形容词的论元还是附加词？(B)我们如何看待这个结构的标记*142磅重？(C)为什么形容词加进比较级(高2英寸，重2磅)后，标记就消失了？我认为，因为程度论元是“功能性的”，所以量词短语必须是形容词的附加语，而不是句法论元。与扩展NP和VP中的事件修饰语一样，量词短语也是形容词的程度论元的谓词。但考虑到度量短语在比较级和其他地方必须发挥作用的那种意义，它不是直接断言程度论元的正确类型。我提出了一种词汇管理的类型转换，它适用于一些形容词，允许它们与量词短语组合。
In some languages, measure phrases can appear with non-compared adjectives : 5 feet tall. I address three questions about this construction: (a) Is the measure phrase an argument of the adjective or an adjunct? (b) What are we to make of the markedness of this construction *142lbs heavy? (c) Why is it that the markedness disappears once the adjective is put in the comparative (2 inches taller alongside 2lbs heavier)? I claim that because degree arguments are ‘functional’, the measure phrase has to be an adjunct and not a syntactic argument of the adjective. Like event modifiers in extended NPs and in VPs, the measure phrase predicates of a degree argument of the adjective. But given the kind of meaning a measure phrase must have to do its job in comparatives and elsewhere, it is not of the right type to directly predicate of a degree argument. I propose a lexically governed type-shift which applies to some adjectives allowing them to combine with a measure phrase.