Vagueness in degree constructions

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Authors
  • G.W. Sassoon
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • A. Riester
  • T. Solstad
Book title Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13
Series SinSpeC : working papers of the SFB 732, 05-II
Event Sinn und Bedeutung 13, Stuttgart, Germany
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 469-483
Publisher Stuttgart: Online Publikationsverbund der Universität Stuttgart (OPUS)
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of unit names and gradable adjectives, inspired by measurement theory (Krantz et al 1971). Based on measurement theory's typology of measures, I claim that different predicates are associated with different types of measures whose special characteristics, together with features of the relations denoted by unit names, explain the puzzling limited distribution of measure phrases.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2009.v13i2.566 https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-5718
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