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 GLiF Formal Linguistics Research Group, 30/03/2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. 2023.

Základní údaje

Originální název

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

Autoři

GEHRKE, Berit; Radek ŠIMÍK a Marcin WĄGIEL

Vydání

GLiF Formal Linguistics Research Group, 30/03/2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 2023

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Španělsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

proportional quantifiers; percentage quantifiers; conservativity; non-conservative readings

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Mezinárodní význam

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Anotace

V originále

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.