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2022
Clustering events for event-external quantification
WĄGIEL, MarcinBasic information
Original name
Clustering events for event-external quantification
Authors
WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Department of Linguistics, 12/05/2022, University College London, 2022
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Vyžádané přednášky
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129344
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
event-internal quantification; event-external quantification; events; acts; occasions; multiplicatives; mereology; mereotopology; part-whole structures
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International impact
Změněno: 7/3/2023 15:38, Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The sentence *Kim knocked on the door three times* is ambiguous between two readings: event-external (quantification over "occasions") and event-internal (quantification over "acts" within a single occasion) (e.g., Cusic 1981, Andrews 1983, Cinque 1999). In this talk, I focus on the role of the syntactic position of the multiplicative numeral in English for the rise of each of the interpretations described above. For instance, in *Twice, Kim knocked on the door three times* and in *Kim knocked on the door three times twice*, the sentence-initial and sentence-final *twice*, respectively, is interpreted high in the structure, and thus it unambiguously quantifies event-externally, whereas *three times* is interpreted low, and thus unambiguously counts individual knocks within each knocking series. I propose a syntactico-semantic account for this phenomenon.
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