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Endriss, Cornelia ; Hinterwimmer, Stefan
Quantificational Variability Effects with plural definites : quantification over individuals or situations?
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In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites. We show that sentences containing the former type of Q-adverb evidence that Quantificational Variability Effects (Berman 1991) come about as an indirect effect of quantification over situations: in order for quantificational variability readings to arise, these sentences have to obey two newly observed constraints that clearly set them apart from sentences containing corresponding quantificational DPs, and that canplausibly be explained under the assumption that quantification over (the atomic parts of) complex situations is involved. Concerning sentences with the latter type of Q-adverb, on the other hand, such evidence is lacking: with respect to the constraints just mentioned, they behave like sentences that contain corresponding quantificational DPs. We take this as evidence that Q-adverbs like for the most part do not quantify over the atomic parts of sum eventualities in the cases under discussion (as claimed by Nakanishi and Romero (2004)), but
rather over the atomic parts of the respective sum individuals.
| Freie Schlagwörter (englisch): | Adverbial Quantification , Situations , Tense Semantics , Adverbs of Frequency , Adverbs of Quantity | |
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| Collection | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2006) 05 | |
| Institut: | Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | |
| DDC-Sachgruppe: | Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik | |
| Dokumentart: | c InBuch (Kapitel / Teil einer Monographie) | |
| Sprache: | Englisch | |
| Erstellungsjahr: | 2006 | |
| Publikationsdatum: | 21.07.2008 | |
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erschienen in: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl. Vol. 5. - 2006. - 221 S. : graph. Darst. ISSN 1614-4708 ISBN 978-3-939469-41-4 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13047 --> bestellen |
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