Underspecification in Degree Operators
Underspecification in Degree Operators
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度运算符的规范不足
DOI:
10.1093/jos/ffx015
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
Guillaume Thomas
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作者:
Guillaume Thomas
The goal of this paper is to account for the recurrent homophony between comparison, additivity and continuation cross-linguistically. Building on Roger Schwarzschild’s recent work on comparison in scale segment semantics, I propose that comparative, additive and continuative sentences all assert the existence of a rising scale segment, and differ in terms of (i) the nature of the scale and (ii) the identification of the extremities of the scale segments. At a morphosyntactic level, all three types of sentences involve the combination of a feature that denotes a property of rising scale segments with other features whose denotations constrain the identification of the extremities of the segments in a way that is characteristic of each interpretation (additivity, comparison or continuation). Homophony results from the underspecification of Vocabulary Items in Distributed Morphology.
DOI:
10.1093/jos/fft018
发表时间:
2014
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J. Semant.
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作者:
Stephanie Solt
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Stephanie Solt