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When a quantifier is not a quantifier : Non-conservative percentage expressions in German

GEHRKE, Berit and Marcin WĄGIEL

Basic information

Original name

When a quantifier is not a quantifier : Non-conservative percentage expressions in German

Authors

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

Edition

Cologne, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, p. 303-321, 19 pp. 2022

Publisher

University of Cologne

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129289

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

Keywords in English

percentages; quantifier; conservativity; modification; definiteness

Tags

Změněno: 24/2/2023 14:31, Mgr. et Mgr. Lucie Racyn

Abstract

V originále

In this paper we discuss percentage expressions of the type ‘fifty percent’ in German and two readings they give rise to, a conservative and a non-conservative one. Based on a questionnaire and a corpus study, we show that the non-conservative reading does not just need a bare, non-genitive-marked nominal to arise, but is also conditioned by word order (it has to appear low) and by the types of predicates that allow for it (in essence, predicates that can be used as existential or HAVE-predicates). We propose an account, under which the percentage expression is a type of scalar modifier that has an apparent effect on the predicate due to semantic incorporation ((in)transitives) and to an existential structure (intransitives).

Links

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