{"id":739,"date":"2026-07-26T23:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=739"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:21:16","slug":"coppock-and-bumford-present-at-salt-36-in-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2026\/07\/26\/coppock-and-bumford-present-at-salt-36-in-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppock and Bumford present at SALT 36 in Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Coppock and Dylan Bumford presented a poster entitled &#8220;Pluractional adverbials as incremental quantifiers&#8221; at SALT 32 in Buenos Aires in July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Poster available for download <a href=\"https:\/\/eecoppock.info\/SALT2026poster.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<br \/>\nQuantifier-internal readings of <em>new<\/em> and <em>different<\/em>, as<br \/>\nin <em>Every day there is a different problem<\/em>, are licensed only<br \/>\nby a small class of quantifiers, which Bumford (2015) unifies as the<br \/>\ndynamic and incremental ones. Hungarian <em>-nk\u00e9nt<\/em> forms periodic<br \/>\nfrequency adverbials, and in that usage it licenses internal readings<br \/>\ntoo, but it raises two complications. Unlike ordinary universals,<br \/>\nperiodic frequency adverbials are atelic; and <em>-nk\u00e9nt<\/em> ranges<br \/>\nwell beyond the iterative use, with manner uses (`take the pill in<br \/>\nquarters&#8217;, like English <em>X-by-X<\/em>) and basis uses (`arrange the<br \/>\nclothes by color&#8217;) that are telic, exhaustive, and immune to<br \/>\nindefinite covariation. Our goal is to account for the scopal<br \/>\nbehavior with respect to indefinites and internal readings, the<br \/>\naspectual profiles, and the presence or absence of exhaustivity,<br \/>\nwhile positing only one lexical entry for <em>-nk\u00e9nt<\/em>. We combine<br \/>\nBumford&#8217;s incremental quantification with Pratt and Francez&#8217;s<br \/>\ncascades, implemented in Beaver and Condoravdi&#8217;s linking semantics,<br \/>\nand extend cascading domain restriction from temporal adjuncts to<br \/>\ncore arguments. The upshot is a single segmenter-plus-fold<br \/>\ndenotation, reused across all three modes, which differ only in what<br \/>\nthe operator composes with and by what route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Coppock and Dylan Bumford presented a poster entitled &#8220;Pluractional adverbials as incremental quantifiers&#8221; at SALT 32 in Buenos Aires in July 2026. Poster available for download here. Abstract: Quantifier-internal readings of new and different, as in Every day there is a different problem, are licensed only by a small class of quantifiers, which Bumford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}