| Titre | Les quatre lectures du quantificateur beaucoup de | |
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| Auteur | Svetlana Vogeleer | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 151, septembre 2003 Indéfinis, définis et expression de la partition, sous la direction de Catherine Schnedecker et Anne Theissen | |
| Page | 43-65 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The aim of this paper is to analyze the semantic properties of the quantifier beaucoup de in subject NPs (Beaucoup de A sont В) and in il y a- sentences (II y a beaucoup de A qui sont B). The analysis accounts for four readings of beaucoup de: existential (cardinal, "weak") reading, proportional reading with respect to the set |A| ("strong" reading), proportional reading with respect to the set |B| , and a reading which is called predicative quantificational. The hypothesis defended is that beaucoup de contains an indefinite component on all its readings. Consequently, it always satisfies the criteria for qualifying as a weak quantifier. The arguments in favour of this hypothesis are based on a distinction between an extensional approach to the "weak" reading according to which the item beaucoup of the quantifier beaucoup de is a cardinal predicate (Ils sont beaucoup) and an intensional approach according to which the item beaucoup is treated as a quantificational predicate (II y en a beaucoup). Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lgge_0458-726x_2003_num_37_151_923 |
