Adjective, Event and Sloppy Reading
It has been often pointed out that sentences like (1) is ambiguous between intersective and non-intersective reading. The former says that Olga is beautiful, i.e. beautiful applies to Olga, and the latter says that Olga’s dancing is beautiful, i.e. beautiful applies to Olga’s dancing. Larson (1998) proposes an interesting analysis that treats adjectives are not ambiguous and the ambiguity comes from the noun; whether the adjective applies to an individual as in (2a) or an event as in (2b).
Kajiura, Kyohei
Meikai University
国内会议
光盘
英文
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2011-12-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）