Comparatives, superlatives, and resolution

Gawron, Jean Mark

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“…For example, (22a) below may assert that Nuha caught the thief who stole more money than any other thief under consideration did (i). This observation indicates that plural and mass nouns take a scalar argument of quantity, as Gawron (1995) proposes, that aktar may associate with. I notate the degree argument as a prefix of the plural or mass noun in the formulas below.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…In contrast to Szabolcsi's and Heim's movement approach, Gawron (1995), Farkas and Kiss (2000), Sharvit and Stateva (2002), Gutiérrez-Rexach (2006), Teodorescu (2009) and Krasikova (2012) claim that the readings of the superlative construction can be derived without movement of the superlative morpheme beyond the DP containing it in the surface structure. Sharvit and Stateva (2002) treat the upstairs de dicto reading in detail that Heim claims is problematic for a non-movement account.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…A lexically gradable term like the adjective high above or fast in (9a) functions as the scalar associate in what is called the 'superlative of quality'. The plurality of a noun may also function as the scalar associate of the superlative morpheme in what Gawron (1995) calls the 'superlative of quantity', illustrated in (9b). These are formed in English by adnominal the most but in Arabic by the adverbial superlative, as described in Sect.…”

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Superlatives in Syrian Arabic

Hallman

2016

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper describes superlative constructions in contemporary Syrian (Levantine) Arabic. These have the revealing property that the superlative morpheme may be linearly separated from the term that provides the degree scale it makes reference to. This displacement is syntactically constrained, lending support to theories that postulated movement in the derivation of superlative constructions. The data reported here also document a tight correlation of scopal options for the superlative in Arabic and English, indicating that the languages are uniform at LF, while the surface distribution of the superlative morpheme is wider in Arabic than in English. The remarkable convergence of a variety of interpretational nuances between these two unrelated languages suggests that these uniformities can be traced to Universal Grammar.

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Superlatives in Syrian Arabic

Hallman

2016

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…An internet search produced examples like 1 ran the fa stest possible and Fast fo od joints will show the best possible looking sample of their product, but such cases are rare and perhaps marginal. 5 For discussion and alternative analyses of comparative superlatives, see also Gawron (1995), Farkas and Kiss (2000), and Sharvit and Stateva (2002). 6 Heim assumes that the value of C can in part be determined by focus and shows how this can be derived within Rooth's (1992) theory of focus.…”

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Modal Superlatives

Schwarz¹

2005

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“…Properly analyzing superlative expressions holds the promise for many applications such as question answering (QA), text entailment, sentiment analysis and so on. In literature, analysis of superlatives has drawn more interests from both formal linguistics and semantics (Szabolcsi, 1986;Gawron, 1995;Heim, 1999;Farkas and Kiss, 2000), but relatively less attention from the computational linguistics and NLP communities (Bos and Nissim, 2006;Jindal and Liu, 2006;Scheible, 2007;Scheible, 2009). …”

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Semantic Interpretation of Superlative Expressions via Structured Knowledge Bases

Zhang¹,

Feng²,

Huang³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Confere

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This paper addresses a novel task of semantically analyzing the comparative constructions inherent in attributive superlative expressions against structured knowledge bases (KBs). The task can be defined in two-fold: first, selecting the comparison dimension against a KB, on which the involved items are compared; and second, determining the ranking order, in which the items are ranked (ascending or descending). We exploit Wikipedia and Freebase to collect training data in an unsupervised manner, where a neural network model is then learnt to select, from Freebase predicates, the most appropriate comparison dimension for a given superlative expression, and further determine its ranking order heuristically. Experimental results show that it is possible to learn from coarsely obtained training data to semantically characterize the comparative constructions involved in attributive superlative expressions.

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Comparatives, superlatives, and resolution

Cited by 56 publications

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Superlatives in Syrian Arabic

Superlatives in Syrian Arabic

Modal Superlatives

Semantic Interpretation of Superlative Expressions via Structured Knowledge Bases

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