GEHRKE, Berit, Radek ŠIMÍK and 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.
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Original name Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations
Authors GEHRKE, Berit, Radek ŠIMÍK and Marcin WĄGIEL.
Edition GLiF Formal Linguistics Research Group, 30/03/2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 2023.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Requested lectures
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Spain
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English proportional quantifiers; percentage quantifiers; conservativity; non-conservative readings
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D., učo 362974. Changed: 14/4/2023 14:59.
Abstract
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.
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