More on Quantifiers in Comparative Clauses
By Jon Gajewski. 2008
47 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The focus of this paper is the interpretation of DP quantifiers in clausal comparatives, cf. (1). Recent work has greatly advanced our understanding of this topic (Schwarzschild & Wilkinson 2002, Schwarzschild 2004, Heim 2006a), yet several puzzles remain. In particular, though recent advances have rectified many of the problems encountered by earlier theories (von Stechow 1984, Rullmann 1995), it is unclear whether they retain all the benefits of these earlier theories. A case in point is the explanation of the unacceptability of downward entailing quantifiers in comparative clauses, illustrated in (2).
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- Quantifiers in Than-Clauses (2010, methodology): “Gajewski (2008) points out that the following analysis of exactly-DPs gives rise to truth conditions that are too weak.”
- On universal Free Choice items (2010, background): “…line of analysis has proved rather fruitful in a number of other domains, such as durational phrases (Dowty 1979), existential sentences (Barwise and Cooper 1981), degree constructions (Fox and Hackl 2006), negative islands in comparatives (Gajewski 2008a), and weak islands (Abrusán 2007b, 2008).”
- The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “There were debates in the recent literature on how adequately this analysis captures the known properties of than-clauses, and overall this kind of analysis has proved to be a very promising one (Heim, 2006; Gajewski, 2008; Schwarzschild, 2008).”
- Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention (2013, background): “25 Giannakidou (2006b) proposes an alternative approach to SNPIs in terms of antiveridicality.”