Incremental more  

Oleh:

Thomas, Guillaume

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 233-250.
Topik: ENGLISH LANGUAGE - SEMANTICS; additivity; degree semantics; event semantics; pluractionality
Fulltext: 233-250.pdf (145.73KB)

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In this paper, we argue that incremental more (moreinc) is a pluractional additive operator. Moreinc combines with a relation D between degrees and eventualities, triggers a presupposition that a similar relation is satisfied by a pair of degree and eventuality (dp;ep), asserts that D itself is satisfied by another pair of degrees and eventuality (d;e), and asserts also that a similar relation is satisfied by the sum of the two pairs, (dp+d;epe). It is this last component of the meaning of moreinc that makes it a pluractional operator. Evidence for such a pluractional semantics comes from the analysis of some restrictions on the use of moreinc with stative predicates.

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