Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: EVIDENTIAL COERCION: USING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL PREDICATES IN STAGE-LEVEL(3) a.There were people intelligent.b. *There were people tall.c. *There were doors wooden.Milsark also showed that weak construals are possible for indefinite subjects only with SLPs.The data in ( 4) and ( 5) indicate this.(4) a. Sm people were sick.b.A man was drunk.c.People were hungry, (existential (weak) or generic possible) 3x[person(x) & hungry(x)] or G x [person(x)] [hungry(x)] (5) a. *Sm people were tall.(cf.Some of the people were tall.)b. *A man was intelligent, (f.All men were intelligent.)c.People were clever in those days, (generic (strong) reading only)Carlson 1977 pointed out that the ability to appear in perceptual reports is re- stricted to SLPs, as seen in the contrast between ( 6) and ( 7).(6) a. Martha saw a policemen available, b.I saw Sam tower over his friends.(7) a. *Martha saw a policemen intelligent, b. *I saw Sam taller than his friends.
Author: Theodore B. Fernald
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W618347600