Expressive Modification and the Licensing of Measure Phrases
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This squib points out that adjectives with measure phrases are incompatible with expressive modifiers such as goddamn. It shows that this otherwise mysterious fact can be explained relatively straightforwardly if, as Schwarzschild (2005) has argued, positive adjectives can support measure phrases only as the result of a type-shifting rule in the lexicon.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Semantics
دوره 28 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011