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

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Acta Linguistica Academica Pub Date : 2021-10-21 DOI:10.1556/2062.2021.00427
M. Dočekal, Lucia Vlášková
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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.
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学位成就的评价性与动词前缀:来自捷克语词法的证据
学位成就的似然性行为一直是困扰语言学家的一个难题。最成功和目前最标准的理论(Kennedy & Levin 2008)将它们视为程度表达式,将不同类型的量表词汇化,这反过来影响由此产生的评价性或非评价性解释。虽然它可以解释英语,但这一理论并不适用于跨语言。我们用新的斯拉夫数据挑战标量理论,并表明言语前缀对学位成就的(非)评价性解释的影响比其基础尺度更大。该提案形式化为两个类型转换项的添加,形态句法实现为前缀,因此,对给定的学位成就具有评估/非评估效果。
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Acta Linguistica Academica
Acta Linguistica Academica Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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期刊介绍: Acta Linguistica Academica publishes papers on general linguistics. Papers presenting empirical material must have strong theoretical implications. The scope of the journal is not restricted to the core areas of linguistics; it also covers areas such as socio- and psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, discourse analysis, the philosophy of language, language typology, and formal semantics. The journal also publishes book and dissertation reviews and advertisements.
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