Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection
The inter-related goals of this paper are: (i) To contribute to a better understanding of the semantic and morphological properties of amount relatives in Romanian, (ii) to compare and contrast these constructions with their English counterparts, and (iii) to bring into bolder relief than has so fa...
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The inter-related goals of this paper are: (i) To contribute to a better understanding of the semantic and morphological properties of amount relatives in Romanian, (ii) to compare and contrast these constructions with their English counterparts, and (iii) to bring into bolder relief than has so far been done in the literature the fact that amount relatives in general are compatible not only with an amount denotation of the complex DPs that contain them, but with an entity denotation as well.
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| spelling | doaj-art-132cbd26cf304980ba43206e3f3104382025-01-21T05:09:18ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882015-12-011110.31743/lingbaw.5625Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connectionAlexander Grosu0Ion Giurgea1Tel Aviv UniversityThe “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest The inter-related goals of this paper are: (i) To contribute to a better understanding of the semantic and morphological properties of amount relatives in Romanian, (ii) to compare and contrast these constructions with their English counterparts, and (iii) to bring into bolder relief than has so far been done in the literature the fact that amount relatives in general are compatible not only with an amount denotation of the complex DPs that contain them, but with an entity denotation as well. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5625amount relativemaximalizationdegree relative pronounsentity vs. amount denotational ambiguity |
| spellingShingle | Alexander Grosu Ion Giurgea Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection LingBaW amount relative maximalization degree relative pronouns entity vs. amount denotational ambiguity |
| title | Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection |
| title_full | Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection |
| title_short | Selected aspects of amount relatives: The Romanian-English connection |
| title_sort | selected aspects of amount relatives the romanian english connection |
| topic | amount relative maximalization degree relative pronouns entity vs. amount denotational ambiguity |
| url | https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5625 |
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