28.2109, Books: Most or the Art of Compositionality: Roelandt
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 17:03:04
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Most or the Art of Compositionality: Roelandt
Title: Most or the Art of Compositionality
Subtitle: Dutch de/het meeste at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/most-or-the-art-of-compositionality
Author: Koen Roelandt
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460932014 Pages: 446 Price: U.K. £ 41.00
Abstract:
Most or the Art of Compositionality deals with the behaviour of the Dutch
quantifier de/het meeste '(the) most' and more specifically the different
interpretations it generates. This dissertation presents a syntactic and
semantic decomposition of de/het meeste into an adjective, the comparative,
the superlative and the definite determiner.
This study consists of four parts. The first one presents an overview of the
literature on English most, from theories that analyse it as a single lexical
item lacking internal structure to proposals claiming that it is a superlative
embedding the comparative and an adjective.
The second part presents a novel perspective on adjectives. Using the four
Aristotelian relations, two logical models are developed that account for gaps
in adjectival lexical fields. These models are visualised using 3D diagrams
that give a straightforward representation of the intricate relations inside a
lexical field.
The third part describes different types of adjectives at the syntax-semantics
interface: positive, negative and neutral adjectives and the comparative and
superlative form. Syntactically, the analysis of the superlative follows
Bobaljik's Containment Hypothesis: it embeds the comparative. Semantically, it
is claimed that the superlative uses universal quantification and comparative
semantics to calculate which entity is more ... than all others.
The final part describes the syntax and semantics of de/het meeste. One of the
crucial observations is that it behaves like the superlative forms of other
adjectives, but not entirely. The small syntactic and semantic differences
account for the different interpretations and definiteness effects in Flemish
Dutch.
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
Written In: English (eng)
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