On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10479041" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10479041 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134044

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jmdiJ0qioX" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jmdiJ0qioX</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5803" target="_blank" >10.16995/glossa.5803</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper discusses conservative and non-conservative construals of percentage quantifiers (%Qs), e.g., 50% of the women vs. 50% women, in Slavic and German. Based on data from corpora and cross-linguistic questionnaires, we make the novel empirical generalization that word order plays a crucial role in distinguishing between these two readings, irrespective of whether there is an additional difference between definite vs. bare nominals (German, Bulgarian, Macedonian) or not (the other Slavic languages). Specifically, non-conservative %Qs appear low in the structure, inside the VP, whereas conservative %Qs either appear in their canonical position, depending on their syntactic role as subject or object (German, Bulgarian), or high/VP-externally (the other Slavic languages). We propose that non-conservative %Qs are always interpreted low and combine with the predicate on a par with semantically incorporated nominals and, with intransitves, existential constructions. We argue against previous accounts that ascribe 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 %Qs to appear low, paired with a general rule for sentential stress placement.

Název v anglickém jazyce

On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper discusses conservative and non-conservative construals of percentage quantifiers (%Qs), e.g., 50% of the women vs. 50% women, in Slavic and German. Based on data from corpora and cross-linguistic questionnaires, we make the novel empirical generalization that word order plays a crucial role in distinguishing between these two readings, irrespective of whether there is an additional difference between definite vs. bare nominals (German, Bulgarian, Macedonian) or not (the other Slavic languages). Specifically, non-conservative %Qs appear low in the structure, inside the VP, whereas conservative %Qs either appear in their canonical position, depending on their syntactic role as subject or object (German, Bulgarian), or high/VP-externally (the other Slavic languages). We propose that non-conservative %Qs are always interpreted low and combine with the predicate on a par with semantically incorporated nominals and, with intransitves, existential constructions. We argue against previous accounts that ascribe 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 %Qs to appear low, paired with a general rule for sentential stress placement.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA20-16107S" target="_blank" >GA20-16107S: Struktury část-celek napříč jazyky</a><br>

Návaznosti

—

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Glossa

ISSN

2397-1835

e-ISSN

2397-1835

Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

48

Strana od-do

1-48

Kód UT WoS článku

000993919600003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85147411310