Elizabeth Coppock
Biographic Data
| ID | 797608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Coppock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Coppock |
| SIGNATURE | COPPOCK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9987-344X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is degree abstraction a parameter or a universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Part-introducing 'percent' in English
Two uses of English percent, called ‘conservative’ and ‘reversed’, have been extensively discussed in the literature. In ‘reversed’ uses, percent introduces a predicate that characterizes a part of a larger whole. This paper points out that there are other constructions in which it does so as well, and illustrates the full range of such ‘part-introducing’ uses, using corpus examples. I then consider how existing theories fare in capturing its dis…
Nielsen v. Preap / 5th grade grammar v. linguistics / Mass imprisonment v. human rights
In the Supreme Court case Nielsen v. Preap, ignorance about syntax and semantics led to tragic consequences. The ACLU lawyer defending thousands of non-citizens from being rounded up and put into prison indefinitely by ICE let it come across that her argument rested on the false premise that adverbs can modify nouns. The textualists claimed victory, even though the humane reading of the text was the literal one in this case. The final decision re…
Defining Definiteness in Turoyo
This paper puts forth an expanded typology of definiteness marking, which includes not only ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ but also ‘super-weak’. It also proposes a methodology for identifying ‘super-weak’ definites, and applies it to Ṭuroyo, an endangered Semitic language. Data from questionnaires and interviews shows that Ṭuroyo’s definite article has a very wide distribution, including anti-uniqueness effects with exclusives, suggesting ‘super-weak’ stat…
Universals in superlative semantics: Supplementary material
Universals in superlative semantics
This article reports on the results of a broad crosslinguistic study on the semantics of quantity words such as many in the superlative (e.g. most ). While some languages use such a form to express both a relative reading (as in Gloria has visited the most continents ) and a proportional reading (as in Gloria has visited most continents ), the vast majority do not allow the latter, though all allow the former. It is argued that a degree-quantifie…
Quantity Superlatives in Germanic, or “Life on the Fault Line Between Adjective and Determiner”
This paper concerns the superlative forms of the words many , much , few , and little , and their equivalents in German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dalecarlian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It demon-strates that every possible relationship between definiteness marking and interpretation is attested. It also demonstrates that different kinds of agreement mismatches are found under relative and proportional readings. One consistent pattern is th…
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
Principles of the Exclusive Muddle
This paper provides a lexical entry schema for exclusives covering the adverbs only, just, exclusively, merely, purely, solely, simply, and the adjectives only, sole, pure, exclusive and alone. We argue, on the basis of inter-paraphrasability relations among these exclusives and entailments involving at least and at most, that all of these items make an at-issue contribution of an upper bound on the viable answers to the current question under di…
Paul Elbourne, Definite Descriptions (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics 1 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 251
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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and in this sense, raise issues for discussion). The point of departure is a simple analysis on which at least denotes what only presupposes, and at most denotes what only contributes as its ordinary …
A semantic solution to the problem of Hungarian object agreement
The objective conjugation in Hungarian: Agreement without phi-features
Toward a True Theory of the Periphery: Why Culicover’s “Odd Prepositions” Aren’t That Odd
“The thing is, is” Is No Mere Disfluency
The objective conjugation in Hungarian: Agreement without phi-features
Is degree abstraction a parameter or a universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Universals in superlative semantics
This article reports on the results of a broad crosslinguistic study on the semantics of quantity words such as many in the superlative (e.g. most ). While some languages use such a form to express both a relative reading (as in Gloria has visited the most continents ) and a proportional reading (as in Gloria has visited most continents ), the vast majority do not allow the latter, though all allow the former. It is argued that a degree-quantifie…
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
A semantic solution to the problem of Hungarian object agreement
“The thing is, is” Is No Mere Disfluency
Toward a True Theory of the Periphery: Why Culicover’s “Odd Prepositions” Aren’t That Odd
The objective conjugation in Hungarian: Agreement without phi-features
Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and in this sense, raise issues for discussion). The point of departure is a simple analysis on which at least denotes what only presupposes, and at most denotes what only contributes as its ordinary …
A semantic solution to the problem of Hungarian object agreement
Principles of the Exclusive Muddle
This paper provides a lexical entry schema for exclusives covering the adverbs only, just, exclusively, merely, purely, solely, simply, and the adjectives only, sole, pure, exclusive and alone. We argue, on the basis of inter-paraphrasability relations among these exclusives and entailments involving at least and at most, that all of these items make an at-issue contribution of an upper bound on the viable answers to the current question under di…
Paul Elbourne, Definite Descriptions (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics 1 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 251
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Quasi-definites in Swedish: Elative superlatives and emphatic assertion
Quantity Superlatives in Germanic, or “Life on the Fault Line Between Adjective and Determiner”
This paper concerns the superlative forms of the words many , much , few , and little , and their equivalents in German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dalecarlian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It demon-strates that every possible relationship between definiteness marking and interpretation is attested. It also demonstrates that different kinds of agreement mismatches are found under relative and proportional readings. One consistent pattern is th…
Universals in superlative semantics: Supplementary material
Universals in superlative semantics
This article reports on the results of a broad crosslinguistic study on the semantics of quantity words such as many in the superlative (e.g. most ). While some languages use such a form to express both a relative reading (as in Gloria has visited the most continents ) and a proportional reading (as in Gloria has visited most continents ), the vast majority do not allow the latter, though all allow the former. It is argued that a degree-quantifie…
Nielsen v. Preap / 5th grade grammar v. linguistics / Mass imprisonment v. human rights
In the Supreme Court case Nielsen v. Preap, ignorance about syntax and semantics led to tragic consequences. The ACLU lawyer defending thousands of non-citizens from being rounded up and put into prison indefinitely by ICE let it come across that her argument rested on the false premise that adverbs can modify nouns. The textualists claimed victory, even though the humane reading of the text was the literal one in this case. The final decision re…
Defining Definiteness in Turoyo
This paper puts forth an expanded typology of definiteness marking, which includes not only ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ but also ‘super-weak’. It also proposes a methodology for identifying ‘super-weak’ definites, and applies it to Ṭuroyo, an endangered Semitic language. Data from questionnaires and interviews shows that Ṭuroyo’s definite article has a very wide distribution, including anti-uniqueness effects with exclusives, suggesting ‘super-weak’ stat…
Part-introducing 'percent' in English
Two uses of English percent, called ‘conservative’ and ‘reversed’, have been extensively discussed in the literature. In ‘reversed’ uses, percent introduces a predicate that characterizes a part of a larger whole. This paper points out that there are other constructions in which it does so as well, and illustrates the full range of such ‘part-introducing’ uses, using corpus examples. I then consider how existing theories fare in capturing its dis…
Is degree abstraction a parameter or a universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Definiteness (5 works) · Superlative (5 works) · Natural language processing (4 works)