Distributional modification: The case of frequency adjectives

Gehrke, Berit; McNally, Louise

doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0065

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“…' (=the whole class, R) However, there are other adverbial adjectives that interact with the event itself, rather than with its aspectual properties. For example, frequency adjectives (Stump 1981;Schäfer 2007;Gehrke and McNally 2015), which modify an event argument, occur both with event nominalizations of incremental theme verbs (50a) and with simple event nominals like clase 'class' (50b). To sum up, this section has discussed the consequences of an analysis of ACs as maximizers.…”

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Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Masià

2017

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ABSTRACT. Aspectual modifiers that have adverbial and adjectival counterparts are an important source of information for researching lexical aspect in the nominal domain. One class of such modifiers are adverbs of completeness (completamente 'completely', totalmente 'totally'), which are maximizers when modify adjectives, and their correspondent adjectives (completo 'complete', total 'total'). This paper addresses the inheritance of aspectual features and its relation to degree in event nominalizations of incremental theme verbs (traduccción 'translation', destrucción 'destruction') through the analysis of the modification performed by adjectives of completeness in Spanish. The proposal combines a syntactic account of deverbal nominalizations with a scalar approach to aspect. Adjectives of completeness are argued to be aspectual modifiers, with a contribution equivalent to that of their adverbial counterparts both in the verbal and in the adjectival domain, establishing thus a parallelism between degree modification of adjectives, verbs and nominals.Keywords. Adjectives of completeness; aspectual inheritance; nominalizations; incremental theme verbs; variable telicity; degree modification; maximizers.RESUMEN. Los modificadores aspectuales que tienen versiones adverbiales y adjetivales constituyen una importante fuente de información a la hora de investigar el aspecto léxico en el ámbito nominal. Los adverbios de completitud (completamente, totalmente), que son modificadores de maximalidad cuando modifican adjetivos, y sus correlatos adjetivales (completo, total) son modificadores de este tipo. Este artículo aborda la herencia de rasgos aspectuales y su relación con los grados en las nominalizaciones de evento de los verbos de tema incremental (traducción, destrucción) a través del análisis de la modificación por parte de los adjetivos de completitud en español. La propuesta combina un acercamiento constructivista a las nominalizaciones deverbales con un análisis escalar del aspecto. En concreto, se defiende que los adjetivos de completitud son modificadores aspectuales que tienen una contribución equivalente a la de sus correlatos adverbiales, tanto en el ámbito verbal como en el adjetival. Se establece así un paralelismo entre la modificación de grado de adjetivos, verbos y nombres.

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Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Masià

2017

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“…Each reading will be additionally confronted with alternative observations on FAs made by Gehrke and McNally (2013). Eventually we will examine Polish frequency adjectives in order to see whether they form a unique group of adjectives with the three readings.…”

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“…Zimmermann (2003) limits them to infrequency adjectives. 3 Gehrke and McNally (2013), on the other hand, argue that the adverbial reading is available for adjectives like occasional, odd and rare. Other FAs have an adverbial reading only when they modify an event noun.…”

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“…On the basis of examples from English we will check whether Polish frequency adjectives form a uniform group. Secondly, we will see whether the division of FAs into temporal and nontemporal FAs, proposed by Gehrke and McNally (2013), is applicable to Polish FAs.…”

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“…The three readings were analysed in English, e.g. by Stump (1981) and Gehrke and McNally (2013). The adverbial reading occurs with frequency adjectives modifying event nouns.…”

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Three Readings of Frequency Adjectives in Polish

Mokrosz

2017

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A b s t r a c t. In this paper the Author describes a group of frequency adjectives in Polish. Polish frequency adjectives may be divided with regard to different readings, namely an adverbial reading, an internal reading and a generic reading as well as a type of a modified noun. The three readings were analysed in English, e.g. by Stump (1981) and Gehrke and McNally (2013). The adverbial reading occurs with frequency adjectives modifying event nouns. In contrast to English, Polish frequency adjectives inducing an adverbial reading admit all sorts of determiners and allow coordination with a specific group of adjectives. Frequency adjectives giving rise to an internal reading require a participant noun. The group of frequency adjectives compatible with a generic reading turns out to be the most varied one.

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Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives

Morzycki

2021

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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In certain uses, adjectives appear to make the semantic contribution normally associated with adverbs. These readings are often thought to be a peripheral phenomenon, restricted to one corner of the grammar and just a handful of lexical items. I’ll argue that it’s actually considerably more general than is often recognized, and that it admits two fundamentally different modes of explanation: in terms of the syntactic machinery that undergirds these structures and in terms of the ontology of the objects manipulated by its semantics. Both modes of explanation have been suggested for some of the puzzles in this domain, and I’ll argue both are necessary. With respect to adjectives including average and occasional, the key insight is that their lexical semantics is fundamentally about kinds. But to arrive at a more general theory of adverbial readings, it is also necessary to further articulate the compositional semantics. In this spirit, I’ll argue that these adjectives actually have the semantic type of quantificational determiners like every. If this way of thinking about adverbial readings is on the right track, it instantiates a means by which these two distinct modes of explanation—and the distinct aspects of cognition they may ultimately be associated with—both play a crucial role in bringing about the apparently aberrant behavior of this class of adjectives.

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Distributional modification: The case of frequency adjectives

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Adjectives of completeness as maximizers of event nominalizations

Three Readings of Frequency Adjectives in Polish

Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives

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