Open AccessDog after dog revisited
Author(s) -
Sigrid Beck,
Arnim von Stechow
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.44.2006.299
Subject(s) - adverbial , plural , semantics (computer science) , computer science , linguistics , natural language processing , programming language , philosophy
This paper presents a compositional semantic analysis of pluractional adverbial modifiers like 'dog after dog' and 'one dog after the other'. We propose a division of labour according to which much of the semantics is carried by a family of plural operators. The adverbial itself contributes a semantics that we call pseudoreciprocal.