Scalar vs. mereological conceptualizations of the N-BY-N and NUM-BY-NUM adverbials
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons |
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| web | https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/2020.mwe-1/ |
| Keywords | adverbial; scalarity; mereology; logistic regression model |
| Description | The multiword adverbials N-BY-N and NUM-BY-NUM (as English "brick by brick" and "one by one", respectively) are event modifiers which require temporal sequencing of the event they modify into a linearly ordered series of sub-events. Previous studies unified these two constructions under a single semantic analysis and adopted either a mereological or a scalar approach. However, based on a corpus study examining new Slavic language material and a binomial logistic regression modelling of the manually annotated data, we argue that two separate analyses are needed to account for these constructions, namely a scalar analysis for the N-BY-N construction and a mereological one for the NUM-BY-NUM construction. |
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