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Les projets Structure Argumentale et Structure Aspectuelle

Et l'Equipe Architecture Grammaticale de l'UMR 7023 Structures
Formelles du Langage

Ont le plaisir de vous inviter

  à un exposé de




Roumyana Pancheva

(University of Southern California)



Titre :

Superlative ambiguities



Date : le 1er octobre 2012

Heure : 14h30

Lieu :  Université de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis, salle D143

Plan d'accès:

http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Plans-d-acces,672.html
<http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Plans-d-acces,672.html>





Abstract:


Superlative expressions are known to give rise to ambiguities: "Mary
read the longest articles" and "Mary read (the) most articles" can have
an interpretation where the relevant length/number of articles  is
independent on who read them, and other interpretations where
alternatives to "Mary read the articles" are considered. How to analyze
these ambiguities has been the subject of some debate. I will present
findings that suggest that scope of "-est" and focus are crucially
involved, and in the case of quantity superlatives with "most", the
interpretation of the underlying "many" plays a role as well.





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