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Walter Pedersen
169-177 (complete pdf)
This paper examines the internal structure of achievement predicates, in particular that of Degree Achievement (DA) predicates. It is argued, based on evidence from again-ambiguities, that the internal structure of a DA predicate (e.g., widen) differs from that of a Result State (RS) predicate (e.g., open). Traditionally, again-ambiguities have been used to argue that certain predicates are decomposable into BECOME and a small-clause; by examining the entailments (or lack thereof) between readings of ambiguous sentences containing DA and RS predicates, it is shown that a BECOME-again analysis is possible only for sentences containing RS predicates. A different type of scopal account is then proposed for DA predicates, in which the amibiguity is explained by the scopal possibilities of again with respect to a complex degree phrase.
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Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Mary Byram Washburn, Katherine McKinney-Bock, Erika Varis, Ann Sawyer, and Barbara Tomaszewicz
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-441-6 library binding
v+322 pages
publication date: 2011
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA