A typology of proportional quantifiers : Evidence from Polish partitives
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta Linguistica Academica |
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| web | oficiální webové stránky článku |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2022.00449 |
| Keywords | proportional quantifiers; partitive constructions; part-whole structures; mereotopology; degree semantics |
| Description | In this paper, I investigate the distribution and semantic behavior of various proportional quantifiers (PQs) in Polish. Based on novel evidence including corpus data, I conclude that Polish PQs do not constitute a uniform category, but rather can be divided into four distinct classes based on the following properties: i) (in)compatibility with numerals and measure words, ii) (in)compatibility with approximative modifiers, iii) (in)compatibility with cumulative predicates and iv) (non)occurrence of spatial integrity effects. I propose that such a typology results from an interplay between more primitive semantic notions. In particular, the data call for combining degree semantics with a mereotopological approach to the meaning of PQs. |
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