Iceberg Semantics for Classifier and Measure Phrases

2020 ◽  
pp. 309-337
Author(s):  
Fred Landman
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrases

Modularity in Thematic versus Aspectual Licensing: Paths and Moved Objects in Motion Verbs

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol L. Tenny
Keyword(s):  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Case Assignment ◽  
Measure Phrases ◽  
Inherent Case

AbstractThis article investigates the nature of argumenthood and adjuncthood, through an examination of the behaviour of the internal arguments of two classes of motion verbs in English. A highly modular view is put forth, in which three separate distinctions influencing argument-like or adjunct- like behaviour must be recognized: aspectual versus thematic licensing, structural versus inherent case assignment, and referentiality versus non-referentiality. Of these three, only referentiality is a graded rather than a binary distinction. The distinction between aspectual and thematic licensing is developed and elucidated. A picture emerges in which aspectual structure may itself be thematically licensed by a verb, and this aspectual structure may have its own arguments, which are then indirectly licensed by the verb. Cognate objects and Romance measure phrases are also discussed in light of these theoretical conclusions.

Getting the (syntactic) measure of Measure Phrases

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Corver
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrases

Measure Phrases

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Gregory Scontras
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrases

Adjectival Inflection and the Position of Measure Phrases

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrases ◽  
Measure Phrase ◽  
Adjectival Inflection ◽  
The Subject

Corver (2009) accounts for the postadjectival placement of the measure phrase in Romance by preposing the adjectival phrase over the measure phrase. I show that this movement serves to avoid violating locality when the T head tries to enter into a multiple agreement relation with the adjective as well as with the subject. I also suggest that the feature content of the potentially intervening measure phrase influences the range of parametric options.

scholarly journals Scale exhaustivity and the Modification Condition

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
M. Ryan Bochnak
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Measure Phrases ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
Dimensional Adjectives ◽  
Modification Condition

This paper pursues a Vector Space Semantics (VSS) analysis of evaluative and extreme adjectives in absolute and comparative constructions, with a particular emphasis on the licensing of measure phrases (MPs) in these environments. I show that the Modification Condition (Winter 2005), which restricts the distribution of MPs with locative/directional PPs and dimensional adjectives, can be extended to account for MP licensing with evaluative and extreme adjectives as well. Importantly, the non-satisfaction of the Modification Condition is entailed when a set of vectors does not exhaust the range of possible values on a particular scale. This observation thus allows us to link a long-standing generalization that scale exhaustivity and MP licensing are crucially related (Bierwisch 1989) with the formal denotational properties of certain linguistic expressions.

scholarly journals Scale exhaustivity and the Modification Condition

2015 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
M. Ryan Bochnak
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Measure Phrases ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
Dimensional Adjectives ◽  
Modification Condition

This paper pursues a Vector Space Semantics (VSS) analysis of evaluative and extreme adjectives in absolute and comparative constructions, with a particular emphasis on the licensing of measure phrases (MPs) in these environments. I show that the Modification Condition (Winter 2005), which restricts the distribution of MPs with locative/directional PPs and dimensional adjectives, can be extended to account for MP licensing with evaluative and extreme adjectives as well. Importantly, the non-satisfaction of the Modification Condition is entailed when a set of vectors does not exhaust the range of possible values on a particular scale. This observation thus allows us to link a long-standing generalization that scale exhaustivity and MP licensing are crucially related (Bierwisch 1989) with the formal denotational properties of certain linguistic expressions.

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