Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations

GEHRKE, Berit, Radek ŠIMÍK a Marcin WĄGIEL. Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations. In ZAS Semantics Circle, 23/02/2023, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). 2023.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations
• Autoři: GEHRKE, Berit, Radek ŠIMÍK a Marcin WĄGIEL.
• Vydání: ZAS Semantics Circle, 23/02/2023, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), 2023.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Vyžádané přednášky
• Obor: 60203 Linguistics
• Stát vydavatele: Německo
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Klíčová slova anglicky: proportional quantifiers; percentage quantifiers; conservativity; non-conservative readings
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam

Anotace

In this talk, we investigate constructions with proportional quantifiers that give rise to conservative as well as non-conservative readings. We show that previous accounts based on focus sensitivity make incorrect predictions with respect to non-conservative readings. Our observations are based on theoretical considerations, which we then aim to tease apart in a series of experiments. We argue against ascribing a crucial role to focus for the non-conservative reading to arise, in taking focus to merely be derivative from the requirement of non-conservative quantifiers to appear low, paired with a general rule for sentential stress placement. We argue that the non-conservative effect comes about due to semantic incorporation and, in the case of intransitives, the structure is essentially a kind of existential construction.