Debunking Multiform Dimensionality: many, Romance tant-PL, & morpho-syntactic opacity
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چکیده
The interpretation of much/many has been argued to be regulated by Uniform Dimensionality (Hackl 2000; Solt 2009): much is underspecified but many encodes cardinality. However, given some data where denotes ‘volume’, Snyder (2021) proposes the need for Multiform Dimensionality: both and are underspecifed. After reviewing English data, in light novel cross-linguistic we argue that neither generalization fully accurate. Instead, following Wellwood (2015, 2018), an alternative, Abstract Dimensionality, which propose universal: MUCH always measures cardinality when it scopes over semantically interpretable plural. We derive universal proposing can occupy different positions NP, only one semantic plural its scope. Variation thus not semantic, morpho-syntactic.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2163-5943', '2163-5951']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5332