Degrees and scales of Kunbarlang

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95492
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-954922
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-36875
Dokumentart: ConferencePaper
Date: 2019-12-05
Language: English
Faculty: 9 Sonstige / Externe
Department: Allgemeine u. vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
DDC Classifikation: 400 - Language and Linguistics
490 - Other languages
Keywords: Linguistik , Semantik
Other Keywords:
Linguistics
Semantics
Kunbarlang
Degrees
Comparison
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Abstract:

This paper discusses novel data from the non-Pama-Nyungan language Kunbarlang in the domain of degree semantics. I show these data to be problematic for an influential typological account couched within the degree-based framework by Beck et al. (2009). I propose an alternative that builds on the delineation approach in the spirit of Klein (1980), and in particular on recent developments employing measurement theory, such as van Rooij 2011b. The proposed solution both accounts for Kunbarlang data and offers a basis for an alternative semantic typology of comparative constructions.

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