Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.013.17
B. Gehrke
The chapter discusses three different readings that so-called frequency adjectives (e.g. daily, frequent, occasional) have been attributed to (internal, generic, adverbial) and zooms in on one of these readings, the adverbial one. Under the adverbial reading (e.g. The occasional sailor strolled by) the adjective can be paraphrased as a sentence-level adverb and thus seemingly scopes over the entire sentence. Two competing analyses of the adverbial reading are discussed, one in terms of distributional quantification, according to which the adjective is a determiner (or is forming a complex determiner with the article), vs one in terms of distributional modification, according to which the adjective is a DP-internal modifier and its seemingly scopal behaviour is merely an illusion. The chapter ends with some considerations why both types of analyses might be needed and a discussion of some cross-linguistic implications.
{"title":"Multiple Event Readings and Occasional-Type Adjectives","authors":"B. Gehrke","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.013.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.013.17","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter discusses three different readings that so-called frequency adjectives (e.g. daily, frequent, occasional) have been attributed to (internal, generic, adverbial) and zooms in on one of these readings, the adverbial one. Under the adverbial reading (e.g. The occasional sailor strolled by) the adjective can be paraphrased as a sentence-level adverb and thus seemingly scopes over the entire sentence. Two competing analyses of the adverbial reading are discussed, one in terms of distributional quantification, according to which the adjective is a determiner (or is forming a complex determiner with the article), vs one in terms of distributional modification, according to which the adjective is a DP-internal modifier and its seemingly scopal behaviour is merely an illusion. The chapter ends with some considerations why both types of analyses might be needed and a discussion of some cross-linguistic implications.","PeriodicalId":415128,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128051690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：