Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus corpus linguistics

corpus linguistics

Hybrid varieties -- 10

CLAUS / OLDENBURG

NOMINA LOCORVM -- VII

A Frontier Redefined -- Thucydides 2

Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus corpus linguisticsThis book investigates the semantics and syntax semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non )split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity