11. Zero and trivialityAndreas Haida, Tue Trinh, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: This paper takes issue with Bylinina & Nouwen’s (2018) hypothesis that the numeral zero has the basic weak meaning of ‘zero or more.’ We argue, on the basis of empirical observation and theoretical consideration, that this hypothesis implies that exhaustification can circumvent L-triviality, and that exhaustification cannot circumvent L-triviality. We also provide some experimental results to support our argument.
Keywords: numerals, modification, exhaustification, L-Triviality
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12. Questioning and time : lecture at the semantics workshop GLOW 41, 14. 4. 2018, Budapest, HungaryAndreas Haida, Tue Trinh, 2018, unpublished conference contribution Keywords: Statives, Cessation, Tense, Interrogatives, Exhaustification
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14. Splitting atoms in natural languageAndreas Haida, Tue Trinh, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The classic Fregean analysis of numerical statements runs into problems with sentences containing non-integers such as John read 2.5 novels, since it takes such statements to specify the cardinality of a set which by definition must be a natural number. We propose a semantics for numeral phrases which allows us to count mereological subparts of objects in such a way as to predict several robust linguistic intuitions about these sentences. We also identify a number of open questions which the proposal fails to address and hence must be left to future research.
Keywords: numerals, non-intergers, mereology
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