Event and degree numerals : Evidence from Czech
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 |
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| web | oficiální web publikace |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554021 |
| Keywords | numerals; comparative; equative; degrees; scales; events; Czech |
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| Description | In this paper, we bring in novel data concerning the distribution and semantic properties of two classes of adverbs of quantification in Czech, i.e., event numerals such as dvakrát ‘twice/two times’ as opposed to degree numerals such as dvojnásobně ‘doubly/twofold’. We explore the contrasts between the expressions in question including the interaction with comparatives and equatives as well as scope asymmetries. We propose that degree numerals target values on a provided scale and are, hence, best analyzed as predicates of degrees whereas event numerals have a more general semantics which primarily allows for quantification over individuated events, but also enables to operate on degrees. |
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