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@misc{2275207, author = {Gehrke, Berit and Šimík, Radek and Wągiel, Marcin}, booktitle = {GLiF Formal Linguistics Research Group, 30/03/2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona}, keywords = {proportional quantifiers; percentage quantifiers; conservativity; non-conservative readings}, language = {eng}, title = {Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations}, url = {https://www.upf.edu/web/glif/glif-seminars}, year = {2023} }
TY - SLIDE ID - 2275207 AU - Gehrke, Berit - Šimík, Radek - Wągiel, Marcin PY - 2023 TI - Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations KW - proportional quantifiers KW - percentage quantifiers KW - conservativity KW - non-conservative readings UR - https://www.upf.edu/web/glif/glif-seminars N2 - 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. ER -
GEHRKE, Berit, Radek ŠIMÍK and Marcin WĄGIEL. Non-conservative construals with proportional quantifiers: Theoretical and experimental considerations. In \textit{GLiF Formal Linguistics Research Group, 30/03/2023, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona}. 2023.
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