Generalizing over Quantitative and Qualitative Constructions
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چکیده
The syntax of these constructions has received a lot of attention in recent years (den Dikken 1995, 1998, Español-Echevarría 1996, Hulk & Tellier 1999ab, Doetjes 1997). However, very little work has concentrated on the relation between both constructions. Milner (1978) had already observed that quantitative and qualitative constructions share the same syntactic structure (see also Ruwet 1982). However, the X’ framework of the late seventies did not allow a fully explicit implementation of this claim: the identical syntactic structure proposed could not account for various properties of quantitative and qualitative constructions. Interestingly, most research since the late seventies has focused either on quantitative or on qualitative constructions, without taking their common properties into consideration. We will argue that the parallelism between qualitative and quantitative constructions is even stronger than previously suspected.
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