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.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.mwe-1.4
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- online
- Editors:
- Stella Markantonatou, John McCrae, Jelena Mitrović, Carole Tiberius, Carlos Ramisch, Ashwini Vaidya, Petya Osenova, Agata Savary
- Venue:
- MWE
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 27–31
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.mwe-1.4
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Lucia Vlášková and Mojmír Dočekal. 2020. Scalar vs. mereological conceptualizations of the N-BY-N and NUM-BY-NUM adverbials. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons, pages 27–31, online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Scalar vs. mereological conceptualizations of the N-BY-N and NUM-BY-NUM adverbials (Vlášková & Dočekal, MWE 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.mwe-1.4.pdf