Event individuation by objects: evidence from frequency adjectives

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• dc.contributor.author McNally, Louise, 1965-
• dc.contributor.author Gehrke, Berit
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-19T09:56:10Z
• dc.date.available 2021-01-19T09:56:10Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description Comunicació presentada a: Sinn und Bedeutung 18 celebrat del 11 al 13 de setembre de 2013 a Vitòria, Espanya.
• dc.description.abstract Adverbially-interpreted temporal frequency adjectives (FAs) such as frequent, sporadic, and daily, are usually restricted to modifying event-denoting nominals (e.g. The house underwent frequent cleanings = Frequently, the house underwent cleanings vs. We saw frequent sailors/the frequent sailor 6= Frequently, we saw sailors/the sailor). In this, they contrast with what Gehrke and McNally (2012) refer to as nontemporal FAs (e.g. odd, cp. The odd sailor strolled by = A sailor strolled by on odd occasions). However, there is a systematic set of exceptions to this generalization, e.g. She wrote frequent letters, which have never been explained. In this paper we provide an analysis of these exceptional cases. Our account points to interesting parallelisms between the construction of interest and Kennedy’s (2012) use of Kratzer’s (1996) Event Identification to account for event measurement via measure expressions on incremental themes. It also situates this use of FAs within the family of semantic incorporation constructions, providing a novel example of how the varied morphosyntactic resources of a language can make it possible to fulfill the pragmatic functions that incorporation constructions serve for a wide variety of propositional contents.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This work has been supported by grants FFI2010-15006, FFI2012-34170, and JCI-2010-08581 from the Spanish government, as well as an ICREA Foundation Academia award.
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• dc.identifier.citation Gehrke B, McNally L. Event individuation by objects: evidence from frequency adjectives. In: Etxeberria U, Falaus A, Irurtzun A, Leferman B, editors. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18; 2013 Sep 11-13; Vitoria, Spain. Vitoria: University of the Basque Country; 2014. p. 146-63.
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46210
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Universidad del País Vasco
• dc.relation.ispartof Etxeberria U, Falaus A, Irurtzun A, Leferman B, editors. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18; 2013 Sep 11-13; Vitoria, Spain. Vitoria: University of the Basque Country; 2014. p. 146-63
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2010-15006
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-34170
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/JCI-2010-08581
• dc.rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Semanticsen
• dc.subject.keyword Adjectivesen
• dc.subject.keyword Semantic incorporationen
• dc.subject.keyword Temporal modifiersen
• dc.subject.keyword Distributivityen
• dc.title Event individuation by objects: evidence from frequency adjectivesen
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