{"id":1925,"date":"2010-11-08T05:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:27:21","slug":"lfrg-1110-guillaume-thomas-on-additive-more-and-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/08\/lfrg-1110-guillaume-thomas-on-additive-more-and-another\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 11\/10: Guillaume Thomas on additive &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;another&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>WHO: Guillaume Pierre Yves Thomas<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHAT: Additive &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;another&#8221;<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHEN: November 10, 1:30PM-3:00PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHERE: 32-D831<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>Both &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;(an)other&#8221; can be used to express additivity in DPs [(1) and<br clear='none'\/>\n(2)] or in adverbial phrases [(3) and (4)]:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(1) Today in Detroit I witnessed 2 more accidents.<\/li>\n<li>(2) Today in Detroit I witnessed another 2 accidents.<\/li>\n<li>(3) You&#8217;ve got 2 more hours to enter today&#8217;s final drawing for a trip to LA for<br clear='none'\/>\nthe Emmys Red Carpet.<\/li>\n<li>(4) You&#8217;ve got another 2 hours to enter today&#8217;s final drawing for a trip to LA<br clear='none'\/>\nfor the Emmys Red Carpet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P>However, the distributions of additive &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;(an)other&#8221; are different with<br clear='none'\/>\nstative predicates. Whereas additive &#8220;more&#8221; cannot be used in the degree<br clear='none'\/>\nargument of a gradable stative predicate [c.f. (5) and (6)], &#8220;(an)other&#8221; is<br clear='none'\/>\nattested in this context [c.f. (7)]:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(5) *The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar<br clear='none'\/>\nthree more inches long.<\/li>\n<li>(6) The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar<br clear='none'\/>\nanother three inches longer. [comparative reading only]<\/li>\n<li>(7) The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar<br clear='none'\/>\nanother three inches long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P>In this talk, I will consider possible analyses of additive &#8220;more&#8221; and<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8220;(an)other&#8221;. I will use the data in (5)\/(7) to argue that additive &#8220;more&#8221; is a<br clear='none'\/>\npluractional operator that quantifies over eventualities, while &#8220;another&#8221; does<br clear='none'\/>\nnot relate to eventualities.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Guillaume Pierre Yves Thomas WHAT: Additive &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;another&#8221; WHEN: November 10, 1:30PM-3:00PM WHERE: 32-D831 Both &#8220;more&#8221; and &#8220;(an)other&#8221; can be used to express additivity in DPs [(1) and (2)] or in adverbial phrases [(3) and (4)]: (1) Today in Detroit I witnessed 2 more accidents. (2) Today in Detroit I witnessed another 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}