Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection

• Authors: Alexander Grosu , Ion Giurgea
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The inter-related goals of this paper are: (i) To contribute to a better understanding of the semantic and morphological properties of amount relatives in Romanian, (ii) to compare and contrast these constructions with their English counterparts, and (iii) to bring into bolder relief than has so far been done in the literature the fact that amount relatives in general are compatible not only with an amount denotation of the complex DPs that contain them, but with an entity denotation as well.

Keywords

EN

amount relative; maximalization; degree relative pronouns; entity vs. amount denotational ambiguity

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Linguistics Beyond and Within
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 86-103

Dates

published

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Alexander Grosu

author

Ion Giurgea

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/lingbaw.5625