Quantification in German

Kobele, Gregory M.; Zimmermann, Malte

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9_5

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“…The German and Russian universal quantifiers jed-e(r/n) and každ-yj(-aja/-oe) ('every') are inflected like singular attributive adjectives: They are overtly marked for case and gender and combine with grammatically singular count nouns only. The German and Russian universal quantifiers also share the following properties: (i) They can be used pronominally (e.g., jeder hoffte; každyj nadejalsja), and (ii) they have distributional properties (Avrutin & Wexler, 1992;Haider, 2010;Kobele & Zimmermann, 2012;Paperno, 2012).…”

Section: Vb and Cr In German And Russianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourse-based pronoun resolution in non-native sentence processing

Puebla,

Felser

2023

Bilingualism

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Personal pronouns can potentially be resolved in logical syntax by means of variable binding (VB) or at the discourse-representational level through coreference assignment (CR). Previous research suggests that real-time reference resolution is guided more strongly by discourse-level cues in a non-native language (L2) than in a native language (L1). Here we use the VB/CR distinction to further test this hypothesis. Using eye-movement monitoring during reading and a complementary questionnaire task, we compared L1 German and L1 Russian/L2 German speakers’ resolution of object pronouns. While both our participant groups ultimately preferred CR over VB interpretations, only the L2 participants showed evidence of favouring a sentence-external CR antecedent from early on during processing. Our L1 group, by contrast, favoured a VB antecedent during processing. The observed L1/L2 processing differences reveal divergent antecedent search strategies, with L2 but not L1 speakers being primarily guided by discourse-level cues during real-time comprehension.

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Section: Vb and Cr In German And Russianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discourse-based pronoun resolution in non-native sentence processing

Puebla,

Felser

2023

Bilingualism

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“…jeweils might also partially correspond to the binominal each of Safir and Stowell's (1988) example in (23) (my gloss/translation). This was proposed by Kobele and Zimmermann (2012), who rule out each as a translation of adverbial jeweils in ( 24) [ (196) There are some objections to these analyses, however. First, each time is not a standard translation of jeweils.…”

Section: Nondistributivity and Noncumulativitymentioning

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Quantification: The View From Natural Language Generation

Carstensen

2021

Front. Artif. Intell.

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Quantification is one of the central topics in language and computation, and the interplay of collectivity, distributivity, cumulativity, and plurality is at the heart of the semantics of quantification expressions. However, its aspects are usually discussed piecemeal, distributed, and only from an interpretative perspective with selected linguistic examples, often blurring the overall picture. In this article, quantification phenomena are investigated from the perspective of natural language generation. Starting with a small-scale, but realistic scenario, the necessary steps toward generating quantifier expressions for a perceived situation are explained. Together with the automatically generated descriptions of the scenario, the observations made are shown to present new insights into the interplay, and the semantics of quantification expressions and plurals, in general. The results highlight the importance of taking different points of view in the field of language and computation.

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