@inproceedings{vlaskova-docekal-2020-scalar,
    title = "Scalar vs. mereological conceptualizations of the N-{BY}-N and {NUM}-{BY}-{NUM} adverbials",
    author = "Vl{\'a}{\v{s}}kov{\'a}, Lucia  and
      Do{\v{c}}ekal, Mojm{\'i}r",
    editor = "Markantonatou, Stella  and
      McCrae, John  and
      Mitrovi{\'c}, Jelena  and
      Tiberius, Carole  and
      Ramisch, Carlos  and
      Vaidya, Ashwini  and
      Osenova, Petya  and
      Savary, Agata",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2020.mwe-1.4/",
    pages = "27--31",
    abstract = "The multiword adverbials N-BY-N and NUM-BY-NUM (as English ``brick by brick'' and ``one by one'', respectively) are event modifiers which require temporal sequencing of the event they modify into a linearly ordered series of sub-events. Previous studies unified these two constructions under a single semantic analysis and adopted either a mereological or a scalar approach. However, based on a corpus study examining new Slavic language material and a binomial logistic regression modelling of the manually annotated data, we argue that two separate analyses are needed to account for these constructions, namely a scalar analysis for the N-BY-N construction and a mereological one for the NUM-BY-NUM construction."
}