title: From nominal quantifiers to adverbial modifiers: A corpus investigation with reference to Swedish
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metadata.value: Herda, Damian
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-02-29T09:32:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-02-29T09:32:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Herda D. From nominal quantifiers to adverbial modifiers: A corpus investigation with reference to Swedish. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 199–217. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.201
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44970
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: As has been noted in grammaticalization literature, partitives, i. e. nominals encoding
  parts, portions, and sets, tend to evolve into vague quantifiers, and then into
  degree adverbs. However, while this grammaticalization path has already received a
  fair amount of scholarly attention in English, the extension of such items beyond the
  nominal domain in Swedish remains an empirically unexplored territory. Thus, based
  on random samples of attestations extracted from selected Språkbanken corpora, this
  paper offers a synchronic glimpse into the syntactic expansion of nine Swedish nominal
  quantifiers, namely droppe ‘drop’, nypa ‘pinch’, smula ‘crumb’, hop ‘heap’, hopar ‘heaps’,
  hög ‘pile’, högar ‘piles’, massa ‘mass’, and massor ‘masses’. The Swedish results largely
  coincide with those obtained for English, and demonstrate that in the verbal domain,
  most of the scrutinized elements reveal a preference for pronominal uses, in which they
  function as an argument of the verb rather than a genuine degree adverb, but which
  nonetheless give rise to secondary scalar inferences, whereas in the adjectival domain,
  a majority of the items exhibit a propensity to combine with the comparative forms of
  adjectives/adverbs. Both of these environments may therefore be assumed to constitute
  bridging contexts in the emergence of full-blown degree modifier uses of grammaticalized
  partitives. It is further shown that there exists a strong positive correlation between
  the items’ respective degrees of grammaticalization in the quantifier function and their extents of adverbialization, which testifies to the importance of frequency of use in the
  scrutinized instance of grammaticalization.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was funded by the National Science Center of Poland (Grant
  no. 2019/33/N/HS2/01695).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: grammaticalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: adverbialization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nominal quantifiers
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: degree adverbs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From nominal quantifiers to adverbial modifiers: A corpus investigation with reference to Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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