Measurement structures with exact proportions allow seemingly non-conservative interpretations (e.g. We hired 70% students, meaning 70% of hirees were students). Languages vary in how they distinguish between conservative (We hired 70% of the students) and non-conservative interpretations. We explore such variation and its repercussions for the syntax-semantics of measurement.
Guest editors: Uli Sauerland and Robert Pasternak
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On non-conservativity of Korean floating quantifiers
Dorothy Ahn and Heejeong Ko
2022-02-24 2022 • Volume 7
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Proportionality and conservativity: the view from Turkish
İsa Kerem Bayırlı
2022-03-25 2022 • Volume 7
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Bare singulars and relative measures in Brazilian Portuguese
Suzi Lima and Guillaume Thomas
2022-05-05 2022 • Volume 7
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On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German
Berit Gehrke and Marcin Wągiel
2023-01-04 Non-Conservativity with Precise Proportions
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On the source of proportionality in nominal measurement: evidence from Greek
Giorgos Spathas and Artemis Alexiadou
2023-03-16 Non-Conservativity with Precise Proportions
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Italian proportions and (non-)conservativity
Michelangelo Falco
2023-09-05 2023 • Volume 8
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