%0 Journal Article
%T Greek <i>p</i><i>o</i><i>li</i> and Its Polysemous Semantic Character
%A Zaina Tsouhlaris
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 735-762
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2024.144040
%X The semantics of Modern Greek adjective <i>polis</i> &#8220;many, much, more, very, a lot&#8221; is of ultimate semantic interest. Greek <i>polis </i>&#8220;many, much, more, very, a lot&#8221; appears to be under the influence of polysemy and grammaticalization as it appears in specific syntactic environments and can be analyzed as a Q-Mod following <a href=\"#ref27\">Tsouhlaris (2011)</a>, which makes <i>poli</i> a quantificational operator over mereological set relations, combining with a complex event nominal and its incremental theme participant. It can also be analyzed as a D-quantifier in the sense of <a href=\"#ref5\">Barwise and Cooper (1981)</a> as it appears in a nominal position of determiner combined with a plural countable noun and quantifies over the nominal. As an A-quantifier, <i>poli </i>is also analyzed as a syntactic operator which forms a constituent from some projection of V and finds its first argument in the verb and its second argument in the whole VP. In addition, <i>poli</i> is also a degree intensifier modifying over adjectives and adverbs as shown in this piece of research.
%K Greek Semantics
%K Quantificational Modifiers
%K A- and D-Quantifiers
%K Intensifiers
%K Scalarity
%K Degree Quantification
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=135588