Scale exhaustivity and the Modi?cation Condition  

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Bochnak, M. Ryan

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 116–135.
Topik: measure phrases; gradable adjectives; comparatives; vector space semantics; scale exhaustivity; cross-categorial modi?cation
Fulltext: 3699-7322-1-PB(7).pdf (200.82KB)

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This paper pursues a Vector Space Semantics (VSS) analysis of evaluative and extreme adjectives in absolute and comparative constructions, with a particular emphasis on the licensing of measure phrases (MPs) in these environments. I show that the Modi?cation Condition (Winter 2005). which restricts the distribution of MPs with locative/directional PPs and dimensional adjectives, can be extended to account for MP licensing with evaluative and extreme adjectives as well. Importantly, the non-satisfaction of the Modi?cation Condition is entailed when a set of vectors does not exhaust the range of possible values on a particular scale. This observation thus allows us to link a long-standing generalization that scale exhaustivity and MP licensing are crucially related (Bierwisch 1998)with the formal denotational properties of certain linguistic expressions.

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