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Degree 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.

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