From change to value difference in degree achievements  

Oleh:

Deo, Ashwini ; Francez, Itamar ; Koontz-Garboden, Andrew

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3 - 5, 2013, page 97–115.
Topik: Degree achievements; lexical semantics; change of state; functional readings; individual concepts; context dependence
Fulltext: 3680-7313-1-PB.pdf (144.96KB)

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Degree achievements and directed motion verbs are standardly taken to describe events in which an individual undergoes change over time. The spatial uses of these verbs, giving rise to what are known as their extent readings, indicate that a temporal change based semantics is not general enough to capture their behavior. In this paper, we introduce a further range of facts that argues for a fully general analysis of the meaning of degree achievements and directed motion verbs in terms of value difference rather than temporal change. These verbs are uniformly analyzed as intensional verbs that take functional arguments and encode a difference in the value of this argument over a contextually given ordered domain. This analysis accounts naturally for their interaction with a range of adverbial modi?ers.

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