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Generalizing Individuating-Measure Ambiguities.pdf (397.44 KB)
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Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities
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Snyder, Eric P, Snyder
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Year and Degree
2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
Abstract
This thesis concerns a well-known kind of ambiguity usually attributed to so-called container phrases such as glass of water. More specifically, four glasses of water is known to be ambiguous between an “individuating interpretation” (four individual glasses containing water) and a “measure interpretation” (a quantity of water measuring four glassfuls). In this thesis, I show that these ambiguities are not limited to container phrases, but are witnessed in atomic predicates more generally. I propose a novel semantic analysis which captures this generalization via a type-shifting principle called “the Universal Measurer”. The result is a generalized semantics for individuating/measure-ambiguities which improves substantially on previous analyses.
Committee
Shapiro Stewart (Committee Chair)
Craige Roberts (Committee Co-Chair)
Pages
38 p.
Subject Headings
Linguistics
Keywords
individuation, measurement, counting, type-shifting, degrees
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Snyder, Snyder, E. P. (2016).
Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462453266
APA Style (7th edition)
Snyder, Snyder, Eric.
Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities.
2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462453266.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Snyder, Snyder, Eric. "Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462453266
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities by Eric P Snyder Snyder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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