Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives

We argue that distributional modification is one strategy that language affords for composing propositions about the quantity of entities that participate in a given situation. Distributional modifiers apply to kind descriptions, contributing the entailment that the kind is instantiated by a set of...

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Autores: Gehrke, Berit, McNally, Louise, 1965-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/32707
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2015.0065
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Semantics
Modification
Adjectives
Events
Kinds
Quantification
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spelling Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectivesGehrke, BeritMcNally, Louise, 1965-SemanticsModificationAdjectivesEventsKindsQuantificationWe argue that distributional modification is one strategy that language affords for composing propositions about the quantity of entities that participate in a given situation. Distributional modifiers apply to kind descriptions, contributing the entailment that the kind is instantiated by a set of tokens with a particular distribution. As a case study, we analyze frequency adjectives (FAs, e.g. occasional).We show that previous work, including our own, has suffered for focusing on the paraphrases of FAs rather than on their morphosyntax. We argue for two subclasses of FAs: those that are intersective modifiers sortally restricted to events, and those that are not. The study reinforces two novel theoretical claims in Gehrke & McNally 2011: sometimes kinds are realized by sets of tokens, rather than individual tokens; and some clauses constitute descriptions of event kinds, rather than event tokens.Linguistic Society of America201720172015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/32707http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2015.0065reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésLanguage. 2015; 91(4):837-70. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2015.0065© Linguistic Society of Americainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/327072026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
spellingShingle Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
Gehrke, Berit
Semantics
Modification
Adjectives
Events
Kinds
Quantification
title_short Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
title_full Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
title_fullStr Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
title_full_unstemmed Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
title_sort Distributional modification: the case of frequency adjectives
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gehrke, Berit
McNally, Louise, 1965-
author Gehrke, Berit
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McNally, Louise, 1965-
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Semantics
Modification
Adjectives
Events
Kinds
Quantification
topic Semantics
Modification
Adjectives
Events
Kinds
Quantification
description We argue that distributional modification is one strategy that language affords for composing propositions about the quantity of entities that participate in a given situation. Distributional modifiers apply to kind descriptions, contributing the entailment that the kind is instantiated by a set of tokens with a particular distribution. As a case study, we analyze frequency adjectives (FAs, e.g. occasional).We show that previous work, including our own, has suffered for focusing on the paraphrases of FAs rather than on their morphosyntax. We argue for two subclasses of FAs: those that are intersective modifiers sortally restricted to events, and those that are not. The study reinforces two novel theoretical claims in Gehrke & McNally 2011: sometimes kinds are realized by sets of tokens, rather than individual tokens; and some clauses constitute descriptions of event kinds, rather than event tokens.
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