Dokument-ID Dokumenttyp Verfasser/Autoren Herausgeber Haupttitel Abstract Auflage Verlagsort Verlag Erscheinungsjahr Seitenzahl Schriftenreihe Titel Schriftenreihe Bandzahl ISBN Quelle der Hochschulschrift Konferenzname Quelle:Titel Quelle:Jahrgang Quelle:Heftnummer Quelle:Erste Seite Quelle:Letzte Seite URN DOI Abteilungen OPUS4-9229 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Bowler, Margit Grubic, Mira; Mucha, Anne The status of degrees in Warlpiri Recent work in semantics has shown that languages can vary in whether or not they include degrees (that is, elements of type < d >) in their semantic ontology. Several authors have argued that their languages of study lack degrees, including Bochnak (2013) for Washo (isolate, USA), Pearson (2009) for Fijian (Austronesian, Fiji), and Beck, et al. (2009) for Motu (Austronesian, Papua New Guinea). In this paper, I follow the tests proposed in Beck, et al. (2009) to assess the status of degrees in Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Australia). I use Warlpiri data collected following the Beck, et al. survey to argue that Warlpiri gradable predicates do not combine with a degree argument. (Like many other Australian languages, adjectival concepts like big and small are expressed using nouns in Warlpiri (Dixon 1982, Bittner & Hale 1995, among others). I refer to these lexical items as "gradable predicates" in this paper.) This paper represents a first pass at assessing the status of degrees in an Australian language, which have otherwise been unexamined from the point of view of degree semantics. 2016 16 Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 1 17 urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92295 Department Linguistik OPUS4-9230 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Hsieh, I-Ta Chris; Shen, Zheng Grubic, Mira; Mucha, Anne The 'Associative Reading' of DPs and the quantity vs. quality distinction This paper investigates an unnoticed difference in Mandarin between the Q-adjectives and the gradable adjectives of quality and shows that this observation follows straightforwardly from a theory that differentiates gradable predication of quantity and that of quality (e.g., Rett 2008; Lin 2014; Solt 2015; a.o.). 2016 17 Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 18 35 urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92304 Department Linguistik OPUS4-9231 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Korat, Omer Grubic, Mira; Mucha, Anne Singular quantified terms In this paper, I discuss the behavior of singular partitives, focusing on Hebrew. I show that group noun-headed singular quantified terms behave essentially different from other singular quantified terms. Specifically, the domain of quantification in the former is a discrete set (the members of the group), while in the latter the domain of quantification is a set of mass entities. I propose a preliminary analysis of singular quantified terms in Hebrew, respecting the properties peculiar to this language as well as the observations about group vs. non-group singular quantified terms. This analysis is based on a novel class of quantifiers I name 'Measure Quantifiers', which instantiate relations between algebraic sums. Using shifts between algebraic sums, we can represent the different readings of singular and plural individual or group terms. 2016 15 Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 36 51 urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92313 Department Linguistik