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Non-conservative constriuctions with percentage quantifiers in Slavic and German

GEHRKE, Berit and Marcin WĄGIEL

Basic information

Original name

Non-conservative constriuctions with percentage quantifiers in Slavic and German

Authors

GEHRKE, Berit (276 Germany) and Marcin WĄGIEL (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

LingORG, 26/04/2021, University of Oslo, 2021, 2021

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Sweden

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119549

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

conservativity; percentage quantifier; information structure; word order

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International impact
Změněno: 10/1/2022 17:37, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, we show that both conservative and non-conservative readings also exist in languages that do not display a morphosyntactic distinction between the corresponding percentage quantifier constructions. Based on data from corpora and cross-linguistic questionnaires, we make the novel empirical generalization that word order plays a crucial role in distinguishing between the two readings, irrespective of whether a language additionally marks the difference between the two by the use of definite vs. bare nominals (German, Bulgarian and Macedonian) or not (the other Slavic languages). We argue against previous accounts that ascribe a crucial role to focus for the NC reading to arise, in taking focus to merely be derivative from the requirement of non-conservative percentage quantifiers to appear low, paired with a general rule for sentential stress placement.

Links

GA20-16107S, research and development project
Name: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky
Investor: Czech Science Foundation