Title: | Adverbul clitic mai ca particulă aditivă |
Author: | Ion Giurgea |
Publication: | Sintaxa ca mod de a fi. Omagiu Gabrielei Pană Dindelegan, la aniversare, p. 213 |
ISBN: | 978-606-16-0846-1 |
Editors: | Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae, Camelia Stan, Rodica Zafiu |
Publisher: | Editura Universității din București |
Place: | București |
Year: | 2017 |
Abstract: | I discuss the semantics of the Romanian clitic adverb mai. I follow Donazzan and Mardale‟s (2010) characterization of mai as an additive particle operating on events, but I show that it is not limited to the temporal domain. I present various readings of mai as particular instances of the additive use, depending on the choice of the parameter by which the at-issue event differs from the antecedent/presupposed event (this parameter can be the time interval, but also a participant to the event, the location, etc.). I further show that the antecedent event is not necessarily presupposed to be true, but can also be salient in the context as a possibility, which accounts for a reading considered problematic by Donazzan and Mardale. Finally, I point out two readings that cannot be subsumed under the additive use: the attenuative reading and the spurious use in exclamatives. |
Key words: | additive, clitic adverb, semantics, Romanian |
Language: | Romanian |
Citations to this publication: 2
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1 | Eva-Maria Remberger | Already in Romance: Universal Properties, Minimal Variation, Language Change | RRL, LXIII (3), 223-240 | 2018 | pdf html |
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