Event-distributivity and exhaustivity
Insights into distributive share markers from experiments with German jeweils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19437410 |
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| Authors | Ana Bosnić (0000-0002-9117-4692, University of Groningen), Maximilian Velich (University of Groningen), Jennifer Spenader (0000-0003-2837-1500, University of Groningen) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Pages | 2-22 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/avt.00034.bos |
| OpenAlex | W3044687832 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Distributive-share markers such as jeweils in German or po in Serbian allow for event-distributive readings, where events are distributed over spatio-temporal units, unlike distributive quantifiers such as each in English that only allow individual-distributive readings. Some researchers propose that German jeweils should be analyzed as a universal event-distributive quantifier. In contrast, other researchers claim distributive share markers (e.g. Serbian po ) are simply event plurality markers. We investigated these claims with jeweils in two experiments. Experiment 1 tested if both individual and spatial (event) distributive readings are readily available for transitive sentences in German, and if there is an exhaustivity requirement on the restrictor argument. Experiment 2 was designed to force event-distributive readings and further disambiguate the results from Experiment 1. Our findings suggest that jeweils seems to be a true universal event quantifier, and highlight that distributive share markers can differ in fundamental features cross-linguistically
Combinatorics · Distributive property · Distributivity · German · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Physics · Pure mathematics · Serbian · Transitive relation · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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