Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9783110185980
Subjects: Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Grammar, Comparative and general; Quantifiers; Semantics; Syntax; Language
Description: "This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates. Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of compositionality."--BOOK JACKET.