Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition

Some elements in German and English, e.g. every DPs, give rise to cumulativity asymmetries: They allow for cumulative readings only if they occur in the scope of another semantically plural expression. We present a surface-compositional and event-less analysis of this pattern, expanding Schmitt'...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory 2018-01 (28), p.177
Hauptverfasser: Haslinger, Nina, Schmitt, Viola
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Some elements in German and English, e.g. every DPs, give rise to cumulativity asymmetries: They allow for cumulative readings only if they occur in the scope of another semantically plural expression. We present a surface-compositional and event-less analysis of this pattern, expanding Schmitt's (2017) 'plural projection' framework. In this system, any constituent containing a semantically plural subexpression denotes a set of (possibly higher-type) pluralities. Cumulativity is built into the rules implementing this 'projection' of semantic plurality.
ISSN:2163-5943
2163-5951