ETXEBERRIA, Urtzi; ETXEPARE, Ricardo

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ETXEBERRIA, Urtzi
Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER]

ETXEPARE, Ricardo
Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER]

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In this paper we show that non-agreeing quantifiers in Basque are conceptually measures. Furthermore, based on the differences between agreeing and non-agreeing quantifiers and observing that the latter do not behave as counters (i.e. they can not appear in NumP position) we propose a new syntactic structure for NPs (building on Borer, 2005) where measures head their own functional projection. This functional projection is placed in between the Classifier Phrase and the Number Phrase. We also show that non-agreeing quantifiers are sensitive to the nature of the predicates they associate to and that Measure Phrases seem to measure both individuals and events/states, as long as the latter denote non-trivial part-whole structures. The predicate sensitivity of measuring quantifiers are explained using the monotonicity constraint (Schwarzschild, 2002) and a homomorphism function (Krifka, 1989; Nakanishi, 2004, 2007).< Réduire

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Basque

non-agreeing quantifiers

conceptual measures

new syntactic structure for NPs

predicate sensitivity of measuring quantifiers

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IKER - UMR 5478