TY - JOUR AU - Amiraz, Omri PY - 2021/09/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A constraint on co-occurrence of partitive quanti?ers and gradable predicates JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 25 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.924 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/924 SP - 55-72 AB - <p>Quanti?ers like most of are compatible with some predicates but not others, e.g., Most of the road is {narrow / #long}. In the context of collective predicates, this is known as the gather/numerous distinction. This paper focuses on gradable predicates—both singular and collective—and argues that only non-monotonic gradable predicates are compatible with quanti?ers like most of. I show that if a monotonic predicate co-occurs with such a quanti?er, the sentence does not have well-de?ned truth conditions, which makes it unacceptable.</p> ER -