Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

Czech high degree constructions: experimental data from Czech swarms

Abstract:
The swarm alternations (The mosquitoes swarmed in the room/The room swarmed with mosquitoes) have been noted in many natural languages and linguists in the last 40 years proposed various analyses accounting for their syntactic/semantic properties like high degree inferences of particular swarms, polarity constraints, etc. We want to add to the swarm-research both i) new (Czech) experimental data concerning their degree semantics and polarity behavior; ii) a new formalization of some of the ideas from especially Hoeksema (2009); those ideas which are supported empirically both by our experiments and previous empirical observations.

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