http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Monotonicity&feed=atom&action=historyMonotonicity - Revision history2024-03-28T09:21:55ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.2http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Monotonicity&diff=7996&oldid=prevWohlgemuth: grr2009-02-17T19:02:17Z<p>grr</p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Monotonicity''' is a determiners (and quantifiers) can be classified according to their monotonicity-properties. A determiner D in a sentence of the form [<sub>S</sub> [<sub>NP</sub> D CN] VP] establishes a relation between the interpretations of CN and VP taken as sets of individuals. The monotonicity-properties of D can be found by extending or restricting the interpretations of CN and VP, and checking whether the resulting sentence is still true. Left upward/downward monotonicity deals with the extension/restriction of CN; right upward/downward monotonicity deals with the extension/restriction of VP. [[Left upward monotonicity]] is often called ''Persistence'' and [[left downward monotonicity]] ''Antipersistence''<nowiki>; [[right monotonicity]] is then simply called </nowiki>''monotonicity''.<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Monotonicity&lemmacode=557 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Barwise, J. &amp; R. Cooper 1981. ''Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language,'' Linguistics and Philosophy 4, pp. 159-219<br />
* Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.<br />
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