Degree expressions

Neeleman, Ad; Koot, Hans van de; Doetjes, Jenny

doi:10.1515/tlir.2004.001

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“…First, we would like to present a classification of degree expressions proposed for English by Neeleman, van de Koot and Doetjes (2004). Then we check whether the same division can be made in Polish.…”

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“…Then we check whether the same division can be made in Polish. Neeleman et al (2004) assume the existence of two classes of degree expressions in English. Class-1 includes very, as, too, that, and the interrogative how.…”

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“…bardzo, is very common among degree expressions from class-1. This observation does not allow us to adopt Neeleman et al (2004) syntactic analysis of degree expressions without any modifications. …”

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“…First, we present a classification of degree phrases as proposed by Neeleman, van de Koot and Doetjes (2004). The authors divide degree expressions into two classes, namely class-1 and class-2 degree expressions.…”

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Tak as a degree expression in Polish

Mokrosz

2016

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A b s t r a c t. The aim of this paper is to identify the syntactic position of the comparative operator tak. First, we present a classification of degree phrases as proposed by Neeleman, van de Koot and Doetjes (2004). The authors divide degree expressions into two classes, namely class-1 and class-2 degree expressions. The expressions of the first class function as heads while expressions of the second class form a group of maximal projections. Only the former but not the latter c-select prepositional phrases, nominal phrases with a gradient property and verbal phrases. Since class-2 degree expressions are adjuncts, they can have a rich internal structure and appear without the host element. As for the movement, only class-2 degree expressions can undergo leftward movement. In the paper we demonstrate that comparative tak looks like a class-2 degree expression in contrast to its English counterpart in an analogical construction, i.e. the comparative as. The crucial difference between English and Polish degree expressions is the fact that in English the dummy operator much appears only in a limited number of contexts while its Polish equivalent, i.e. bardzo, is very common among degree expressions from class-1. This observation does not allow us to adopt Neeleman et al. (2004) syntactic analysis of degree expressions without any modifications.

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Section: Classification Of Degree Expressions In English and Polishmentioning

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Tak as a degree expression in Polish

Mokrosz

2016

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“…: make a cold hangman), must be conceived as a modifier; that is, as an adjunct of a bare gradable noun. 7 Thus, evaluative bare nouns behave like evaluative bare adjectives in that they license satellite constituents (Neeleman -van de Koot -Doetjes 2003). From this, it follows that the concept of degree associated with these data must be related to the semantic properties of the Noun itself, not to a hypothetical Deg constituent.…”

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Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

Espinal¹

2004

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In this study I shall focus on two Romance idiomatic patterns and the semantics of nouns. It is shown that idioms, in addition to having distinct basic argument structure representations, are formed in syntax by various instantiations of Merge. It is argued that there is a lexicalization pattern reflecting semantic conflation (Talmy 1985(Talmy , 2000 between cause and degree. This pattern, in syntactic terms, is the output of subsequent Merge operations (Chomsky 1995) between the object noun of a monadic argument structure, an indefinite quantifier and an adjunct phrase. The study of this lexicalization pattern is of interest with regard to the semantics of bare nouns, especially of bare count singular nouns in object position; it is proved that bare nouns are interpreted as properties, and, because of this, they permit quantification over degrees. By contrast, there is a second lexicalization pattern starting from a composite argument structure which licenses an individual or a kind denoting reading for the DP object.

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Measure Phrases and Semi‐Lexical Nouns

Csirmaz

Stavrou

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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Measure phrases (MPs, e.g., “two pounds”) appear in a wide variety of environments: nominal, adjectival, adpositional, and verbal structures. The goal of the chapter is to present an overview of the variety of constructions involving MPs as well as the different treatments that were proposed for these structures. Accordingly, the chapter reviews the internal structure of measure expressions as well as the function (predicate nominal, modifier or argument) and position of MPs inside the larger structures that contain them. The structures to be discussed include positive and differential MPs, which appear with adjectives as well as in compound, partitive, and pseudopartitive constructions with nominals. The chapter also addresses variation in the acceptability of MPs, both language‐internally and across languages, as well as the cross‐linguistically distinct realizations of structures that contain MPs. Other topics to be discussed are issues specific to spatial (“twenty miles”) and temporal measure expressions (“twenty minutes”) as well as classifier and container constructions.

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Degree expressions

Cited by 74 publications

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Tak as a degree expression in Polish

Tak as a degree expression in Polish

Lexicalization of Light Verb Structures and the Semantics of Nouns

Measure Phrases and Semi‐Lexical Nouns

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