Numeral differential constructions in Arabic

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-12-14 DOI:10.3765/sp.13.17

Peter Hallman

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Abstract

In sentences like Mary found three shells more than Joan did , three appears to syntactically modify the object noun shells yet is interpreted as a specification of the difference between the number of shells that Mary found and the number that Joan found. Accordingly, syntactic and semantic analyses of such cases cast the numeral as a modifier of more in the transformational base for this construction. In this paper, I present evidence from Arabic indicating that the numeral is a direct modifier of the plural noun in the counterpart construction in that language. I propose that derivational processes sever its thematic relation to the plural noun and reintegrate it as a modifier of the differential argument of the comparative morpheme. What makes this possible is raising of the numeral together with late insertion of the comparative degree phrase (DegP), as previously proposed for superlative DegPs. EARLY ACCESS

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阿拉伯语的数字差异结构

在像玛丽比琼多发现三个贝壳这样的句子中，“三”似乎在语法上修饰了宾语名词“贝壳”，但却被解释为玛丽发现的贝壳数量和琼发现的贝壳数量之间的差异。因此，这种情况下的句法和语义分析将数字作为more的修饰语，在这种结构的转换基础上。在本文中，我提出了来自阿拉伯语的证据，表明该数字在该语言的对等结构中是复数名词的直接修饰语。我建议衍生过程切断其与复数名词的主位关系，并将其作为比较语素的差异论证的修饰语重新整合。使这种情况成为可能的是提高数字并在后面插入比较级短语(DegP)，就像以前建议的最高级DegP一样。早期访问

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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