Liketa is not Almost

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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Greg
dc.date2023-05-17T07:39:53.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T00:40:20Z
dc.date.available2013-01-28T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-28
dc.date.submitted2013-01-28T18:50:31-08:00
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I analyze the syntax and semantics of the approximative liketa as found in Appalachian English. Liketa is commonly translated to standard American English as almost. I present syntactic facts from extrapostion, yes/no question response, and hierarchy of projections which suggest that liketa is in fact a verb and not an adverb like almost. I use this syntactic analysis to show that a verbal decomposition analysis of the semantics of almost and German fast is not sufficient to explain liketa's unique set of interpretations. Instead I propose that liketa's interpretations are best captured with an analysis which says that liketa is best analyzed as an expression which generates sets of ordered alternatives following Penka (2006). I suggest that the alternatives receive their structure from the aspectual structure of the verb under liketa.
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dc.source.issue10
dc.source.journalUniversity of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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dc.titleLiketa is not Almost
dc.title.alternativeLiketa is not Almost
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