TY  - BOOK
A1  - Bowler, Margit
A1  - Hsieh, I-Ta Chris
A1  - Shen, Zheng
A1  - Korat, Omer
A1  - Tran, Thuan
ED  - Grubic, Mira
ED  - Mucha, Anne
T1  - Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2
N2  - TripleA is a workshop series founded by linguists from the University of Tübingen and the University of Potsdam. Its aim is to provide a forum for semanticists doing fieldwork on understudied languages, and its focus is on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania. The second TripleA workshop was held at the University of Potsdam, June 3-5, 2015.
KW  - formal semantics
KW  - understudied languages
KW  - Warlpiri
KW  - Mandarin
KW  - Hebrew
KW  - Vietnamese
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91742
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bowler, Margit
ED  - Grubic, Mira
ED  - Mucha, Anne
T1  - The status of degrees in Warlpiri
JF  - Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92295
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
ER  -