Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach
Week 1, August 3-7, 2020
Abstract:
ADDITIVITY and SCALARITY, linguistically encoded by alternative-sensitive operators, are in principle independent of each other: There are additives which are not scalars (e.g. 'also' / 'too'), as well as scalars which are not additives (e.g. 'only'-like particles).
In this course, we intend to focus on two types of expressions where additivity and scalarity co-exist (sometimes referred to as ‘scalar additives’). The first is illustrated by English 'even', and the second by English additive 'more'.