Affiliation:
1. National Tsing Hua University
Abstract
Abstract
A degree sentence such as John and Mary are equally tall conveys both reciprocity and equivalence and
hence are termed “Reciprocal Equatives” (RE). Building on Schwarz’s (2007) pioneer study, I
suggest an account for this degree construction that covers a wider range of data. To the extent that the proposal is on the right track, it
provides new support for building in plurality in the domain of degrees, an idea that has been put forward by Beck (2010; 2014) and Dotlačil & Nouwen
(2016).
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics