Evaluativity of degree achievements and verbal prefixes : Evidence from Czech morphology

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00122742" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00122742 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00427" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00427</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2062.2021.00427" target="_blank" >10.1556/2062.2021.00427</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evaluativity of degree achievements and verbal prefixes : Evidence from Czech morphology
Original language description
The telicity behavior of degree achievements has been a puzzling problem to many linguists. The most successful and currently standard theory (Kennedy & Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions lexicalizing different types of scales, which in turn influence the resulting evaluative or non-evaluative interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory does not hold up cross-linguistically. We challenge the scalar theory with new Slavic data and show that verbal prefixes influence the (non-)evaluative interpretation of degree achievements more than their underlying scales do. This proposal is formalised as an addition of two type shifters, morphosyntactically realised as prefixes, which, in result, have an evaluative/non-evaluative effect on the given degree achievement.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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