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Superlative displacement in ‘sandwich’ scenarios
Natural Language Semantics ( IF 1.524 ) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09201-4
Peter Hallman

This article seeks to reconcile the ‘movement’ account of the interpretation of superlative and comparative degree quantifiers with a class of apparent counterexamples. Superlative and comparative degree quantifiers compare the extent to which a target term and alternatives to the target instantiate a gradable property. On the movement analysis, the target and the gradable property are determined by the scope of the degree quantifier in the syntactic structure. As a structural consequence, terms in the scope of the degree quantifier are indifferent to the presence of the degree quantifier. This leads to incorrect empirical predictions in some contexts, apparently undermining the movement account. I provide an analysis of these contexts in which the unexpected interaction of degree quantifiers with other terms in their scope is a side effect of quantification over situations inherent in the degree quantifier itself.



中文翻译:

“三明治”场景中的最高级位移

本文试图调和最高级和比较级量词解释的“运动”说明与一类明显的反例。最高级和比较级量词比较目标术语和目标替代词实例化可分级属性的程度。在运动分析上,目标和可分级属性由句法结构中程度量词的范围决定。作为结构结果,程度量词范围内的术语与程度量词的存在无关。在某些情况下,这会导致不正确的经验预测,显然会破坏运动账户。

更新日期:2023-04-03
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