Oral Presentation for "Uncovering the scale: On the interaction between the semantics of roots and functional structure"

<div><div>This talk was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/">39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics</a>.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Provided abstract:<br></div></div><div>This talk presents a hypothesis concerning those semantic aspects of roots which are visible to functional structure and supports the hypothesis by contrasting the behavior or degree achievement verbs with a class of verbs represented by 'cover'. It is shown that the stative roots at the core of both classes interact differently with functional structure and this difference is attributed to scalar structure associated with degree achievements but lacking from 'cover' verbs.</div><div><div><br></div><div><hr></div><div><br></div><div><i>For inquiries regarding the contents of this dataset, please contact the Corresponding Author listed in the README.txt file. Administrative inquiries (e.g., removal requests, trouble downloading, etc.) can be directed to data-management@arizona.edu</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>This item is part of <a href="https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401">39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics</a></i></div></div>