Abstract
Abstract
This paper investigates adverbial superlative expressions in Dutch that have a temporal interpretation, i.e. that
contain the forms eerst ‘first’, laatst ‘latest’, and vroegst ‘earliest’. I
focus on possessive superlatives and superlatives embedded under the preposition voor. Although both
constructions contain bare superlatives and are interpreted temporally, they represent semantically and pragmatically different
readings, and attach to the sentence in structurally different ways. I present a semantic analysis of both types of superlatives,
and I show what this entails for how time adverbials interact with superlatives.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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