TY - BOOK ID - 77927370 TI - Formal Properties of Measurement Constructions PY - 2008 SN - 1282194437 9786612194436 3110198487 9783110198485 9783110185980 3110185989 9781282194434 661219443X PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Semantics. KW - Compositionality (Linguistics) KW - Composition (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Hierarchy (Linguistics) KW - Comparative clauses (Grammar) KW - Comparison (Grammar) KW - Language and languages KW - Quantifiers (Linguistics) KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Syntax KW - Syntax. KW - Quantifiers. KW - Comparative clauses. KW - Clauses KW - Quantifiers KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - generative semantics. KW - generative syntax. KW - semantics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927370 AB - This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates. Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of compositionality. ER -