Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence
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Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence from Czech

DOČEKAL, Mojmír

Základní údaje

Originální název

Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence from Czech

Autoři

DOČEKAL, Mojmír

Vydání

Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020), 9.-10.3.2020, Berlín, 2020

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

modified numerals; experiments

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 8. 4. 2021 10:09, PhDr. Aleš Bičan, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Background. Previous research on modified numerals established some widely accepted contrasts between comparative modifiers (CM) and superlative modifiers (SM) (see Büring 2008; Geurts and Nouwen 2007; Nouwen 2015; Mayr 2013; Schwarz 2016 a.o.), such as: (i) CM don’t but SM do giveraise to obligatory ignorance implicatures; (ii) CM can scope over or under existential modals (EM)but SM have to outscope them. Ano more than Numconstruction (NMC), where negation and comparison are combined in a way exemplified by an English sentence (1) from Nouwen (2008), to this day the most developed formal treatment of NMC, is then claimed to allow both scopes w.r.t.EM (Nouwen 2008) and to have scalar bounding inference, signalling speaker’s well-informedness (ibid), since English no more construction (unlike class B modifiers) give raise to equality readings like (=50) for (1). Such claims seem to be supported by the comparative morphology of NMC. I bring new experimental and corpus evidence against both claims, showing that (cross-linguistically) (i)NMC can be interpreted only with wider scope then EM; (ii) NMC is compatible (mostly) only with speaker’s insecurity (or so-called variation) readings as SM. The experimental and corpus evidence comes from Czech as it was observed before that Slavic languages (unlike English) generally don’t support speaker’s well-informedness NMC interpretation (Dočekal 2017).

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0873/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2020

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2020, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

DOČEKAL, Mojmír. Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence from Czech. In Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020), 9.-10.3.2020, Berlín. 2020.

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   language = {eng},
   title = {Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence from Czech},
   url = {https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/das-zas/veranstaltungen/details/events/5883-degree-expressions-and-polarity-eff},
   year = {2020}
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DOČEKAL, Mojmír. Against class A treatment of no more : experimental evidence from Czech. In \textit{Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects (DegPol2020), 9.-10.3.2020, Berlín}. 2020.

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