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Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection
Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection

Author(s): Alexander Grosu, Ion Giurgea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Wydawnictwo KUL
Keywords: amount relative; maximalization; degree relative pronouns; entity vs. amount denotational ambiguity

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 86-103
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English