Open AccessDegree Infinitival Clauses
Author(s) -
Lisa Bylinina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2660
Subject(s) - attributive , adjective , infinitive , linguistics , dependent clause , mathematics , adverb , morpheme , degree (music) , non finite clause , computer science , noun , verb , philosophy , sentence , physics , acoustics
I discuss the structure and semantic composition of the so-called "Attributive-with-Infinitive" construction -- a construction that contains a positive gradable adjective in the attributive position, and a gapped infinitival clause. Studying the way the adjective combines with the infinitival clause will suggest a new type of an infinitival clause -- a degree interval-denoting one. The analysis will have consequences for the nature of a positive morpheme.