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[Elena Soare]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous inviter, dans le cadre de son séminaire

http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Seminaire-de-l-UMR-7023,50-.html

à un exposé de



 *Carmen Dobrovie Sorin*

(CNRS – LLF)

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Titre :

*Most – massique et comptable***

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Date : le 7 octobre 2013

Heure : 10h30

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

Plan d’accès:

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





*Most**: the View from Mass Quantification*

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, LLF-CNRS, Université Paris 7

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It is currently assumed that* **most* can quantify over mass domains. This
view is confronted with counterexamples that point to the necessity of
distinguishing between two types of *most*, which respectively take
set-denoting and entity-denoting restrictors. I will argue that
entity-restrictor *most *can quantify over mass domains, in clear contrast
with set-restrictor *most*, which can only quantify over count domains.
These empirical generalizations, which will be shown to hold in English,
Romanian, Hungarian and German, bring in new insights into our
understanding of genericity: generic sentences built with *most* can rely
not only on a set-restrictor *most* but also on a kind-restrictor *most*,
which is a particular type of entity-restrictor *most*. My explanation of
the observed generalizations is inspired by Szabolcsi & Zwarts' (93)
algebraic semantic account of weak islands: set-restrictor *most* compares
the cardinalities of two complement sets, but mass domains have the
structure of non-atomic join semi-lattices, on which complements are not
defined. Entity-restrictor *most*, on the other hand, compares two
complement parts of an object, and two complement parts of an object can be
defined. The proposal is shown to extend to adverbs of quantification,
which are correctly predicted to be able to take either sets or objects in
their restriction.

carmen.sorin at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr




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