The degree nature of swarm-alternations: experimental evidence from Slovak

VLÁŠKOVÁ, Lucia. The degree nature of swarm-alternations: experimental evidence from Slovak. In OLINCO 2021. 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: The degree nature of swarm-alternations: experimental evidence from Slovak
• Authors: VLÁŠKOVÁ, Lucia.
• Edition: OLINCO 2021, 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: swarm-alternation; degree semantics; gradability; scalarity; Slovak; experimental study
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The swarm-alternation is a relation between sentences such as "Bees are swarming in the garden" and "The garden is swarming with bees". There are two major theories attempting to explain the underlying semantics: Dowty´s dynamic texture hypothesis and Hoeksema´s high-degree hypothesis. Following Hoeksema´s theory, we account for the swarm-alternation in terms of degree semantics. Two experiments were conducted on Slovak data testing the acceptability of the swarm-constructions with different modifiers. The aim of this study was to investigate the degree nature of the swarm-constructions, focusing on the type of scale involved.

Links

• MUNI/A/1288/2020, interní kód MU: Name: Komparativní a typologický lingvistický výzkum kategorie stupně a čísla - studenti ÚJaB (Acronym: KoTyLin)

Investor: Masaryk University