| Titre | Des prédicats non-quantifiables : les prédicats holistes | |
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| Auteur | Francis Corblin | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 169, mars 2008 Événements, prédicats, arguments | |
| Page | 34-56 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A class of non-quantifiable predicates : the holist predicates. This article works out a semantic typology of predicates which is needed for the explanation of some strong linguistic data : 1) some predicates cannot combine with any quantifier (dubbed in the paper holist predicates, e.g. to be numerous) ; 2) the inferences from the satisfaction of a predicate by an individual to the satisfaction by its parts is a lexical matter. The paper discusses and extends previous work by Dowty (1987), Yoon (1996), and related works ; its main focus is to connect this lexical typology of predicates to some known problems of classical theories of plurality for handling definite references. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_169_0034 |
