Cross-Categorial Restrictions on Measure Phrase Modification
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Spatial and temporal Measure Phrases (MPs) such as ten meters, five years etc. appear with various linguistic items, including locative prepositions, scalar dimensional adjectives and comparatives, and show certain systematic contrasts in these domains. Some examples are given below. (1) a. Prepositions: ten meters behind/outside/*near/*on the house b. Adjectives: ten meters wide/*narrow/deep/*shallow five years old/*young/long/*short c. Comparatives: ten meters wider/narrower/deeper/shallower than... five years older/younger/longer/shorter than... These constructions raise obvious questions about their proper semantic interpretation and the origins of the marked differences in their acceptability. But MP modification of adjectives in the positive form as in (1b) raises an additional complication: in the acceptable cases of MP modification with adjectives, the meaning
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تاریخ انتشار 2004