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Alberto Pastor
325-336 (complete pdf)
This article studies the interferences between degree and (in)definiteness and (non)specificity. Focusing on Spanish, these interferences are explained as a result of the interaction of lexical properties of determiners and graded adjectives, and conditions of pragmatic nature. The main contributions of this article are a new distinction between operators and degree modifiers and a uniform explanation of two phenomena: the infelicity of modified graded adjectives inside definite environments, and the fact that modified graded adjectives favor the specific reading of indefinites. Underlying both phenomena there is a pragmatic feature of noteworthiness associated with degree modifiers.
Published in:
Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
edited by Luis A. Ortiz-López
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-442-3 library binding
v+336 pages
publication date: 2011
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA