Clustering events for event-external quantification

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Clustering events for event-external quantification
Original language description
The sentence *Kim knocked on the door three times* is ambiguous between two readings: event-external (quantification over "occasions") and event-internal (quantification over "acts" within a single occasion) (e.g., Cusic 1981, Andrews 1983, Cinque 1999). In this talk, I focus on the role of the syntactic position of the multiplicative numeral in English for the rise of each of the interpretations described above. For instance, in *Twice, Kim knocked on the door three times* and in *Kim knocked on the door three times twice*, the sentence-initial and sentence-final *twice*, respectively, is interpreted high in the structure, and thus it unambiguously quantifies event-externally, whereas *three times* is interpreted low, and thus unambiguously counts individual knocks within each knocking series. I propose a syntactico-semantic account for this phenomenon.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-16107S" target="_blank" >GA20-16107S: Part-whole structures across languages</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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