Swarms and degrees -- 3 experiments on Slavic swarm constructions

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Swarms and degrees -- 3 experiments on Slavic swarm constructions
Original language description
Our talk reports results of three experiments concerning swarm constructions (prototypical English examples of A-/L-swarm sentences are *Termites are swarming in my kitchen*/*My kitchen is swarming with termites*) in Czech and Slovak. The results of the experiments confirm some of the Hoeksema's (2009, 2018) claims describing L-swarms as causative degree constructions. The experiments also bring new evidence about the type of scales encoded by L-swarms. Next, Slavic data also show the pluractional nature of A-swarms on top of which L-swarms add the scalar semantics. Finally, the results of the experiments falsify some of the previous claims about the positive polarity properties of L-swarms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-16111S" target="_blank" >GA17-16111S: Formal Approaches to Number in Slavic Languages</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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