WHO: Guillaume Pierre Yves Thomas
WHAT: Additive “more” and “another”
WHEN: November 10, 1:30PM-3:00PM
WHERE: 32-D831
Both “more” and “(an)other” can be used to express additivity in DPs [(1) and (2)] or in adverbial phrases [(3) and (4)]:
- (1) Today in Detroit I witnessed 2 more accidents.
- (2) Today in Detroit I witnessed another 2 accidents.
- (3) You’ve got 2 more hours to enter today’s final drawing for a trip to LA for the Emmys Red Carpet.
- (4) You’ve got another 2 hours to enter today’s final drawing for a trip to LA for the Emmys Red Carpet.
However, the distributions of additive “more” and “(an)other” are different with stative predicates. Whereas additive “more” cannot be used in the degree argument of a gradable stative predicate [c.f. (5) and (6)], “(an)other” is attested in this context [c.f. (7)]:
- (5) *The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar three more inches long.
- (6) The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar another three inches longer. [comparative reading only]
- (7) The washi and bamboo kite is six inches in diameter with an extended spar another three inches long.
In this talk, I will consider possible analyses of additive “more” and “(an)other”. I will use the data in (5)/(7) to argue that additive “more” is a pluractional operator that quantifies over eventualities, while “another” does not relate to eventualities.