Non-conservativity with percentages in Slavic and German

GEHRKE, Berit and Marcin WĄGIEL. Non-conservativity with percentages in Slavic and German. In Slavic Linguistics Colloquium (SlavLingColl), 24/02/2021, Humbold University of Berlin. 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: Non-conservativity with percentages in Slavic and German
• Authors: GEHRKE, Berit (276 Germany) and Marcin WĄGIEL (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Slavic Linguistics Colloquium (SlavLingColl), 24/02/2021, Humbold University of Berlin, 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: oficiální webové stránky kolokvia
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119519
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: conservativity; percentage quantifiers; proportional quantification; word order
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

Recently, it has been observed that certain percentage quantifier constructions give rise to conservative as well as apparently non-conservative readings. Across the languages examined so far, the non-conservative reading can correlate with the use of bare nominals (as opposed to definites), and it has been observed that in some languages, e.g. English, percentage quantifiers cannot appear in subject position (subject-object asymmetry). Based on a broad cross-Slavic study, we bring novel evidence for non-conservative interpretations in configurations with percentage quantifiers as well as the source of the subject-object asymmetry.

Links

• GA20-16107S, research and development project: Name: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky

Investor: Czech Science Foundation