Measure Phrase Constructions in English, German, and French: The (Non-)Occurrence of Antonyms and Effects of Evaluativity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hofstetter
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrase

Mass/count

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Gillon ◽  
Nicole Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Count Nouns ◽  
Measure Phrase ◽  
Plural Marking

This chapter investigates the mass/count distinction in Michif. In many languages, mass and count nouns are distinguished via the (in)ability to occur with plural marking, the (in)ability to occur with numerals without a measure phrase, and the (in)ability to occur with certain quantifiers (Jespersen 1909; Chierchia 1998). However, these diagnostics do not apply to all languages. For example, in Inuttut (Labrador Inuktitut), none of those diagnostics distinguishes between mass and count nouns, but there are other diagnostics that do (Gillon 2012). This chapter shows that Michif displays a split: in one part of the grammar, the three diagnostics distinguish between mass and count nouns, and in another part, the diagnostics do not. This shows that Michif disambiguates between French-derived vocabulary and Algonquian-derived vocabulary, which complicates the notion that the Michif DP is French (Bakker 1997).

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.

Phrase Structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-91
Author(s):  
Danuta Mirka
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Measure Phrases ◽  
Music And Language ◽  
Measure Phrase

This chapter focuses on phrase structure, whose discussion in the eighteenth century was subsumed under the theory of melody and based on the parallel between music and language. The first part is devoted to classification of caesuras and melodic sections contained by them. Since the former were equivalent to punctuation marks (period, colon, semicolon, comma) and the latter to grammatical units (sentences, clauses), the musical terminology adopted by eighteenth-century authors (Johann Mattheson, Joseph Riepel, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Johann Philipp Kirnberger, and Heinrich Christoph Koch) was influenced by linguistic terminology and it developed for decades, with meanings of individual terms changing from author to author. The second part of the chapter treats the different lengths of phrases. It links the preference for four-measure phrases to regular hypermeter and it presents a classification of four-measure phrase rhythms.

scholarly journals Measure Phrase Equatives and Modified Numerals

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Rett
Keyword(s):  
Measure Phrase ◽  
Modified Numerals
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