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Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison

Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison

Kennedy, Christopher

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Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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ISBN10: 1138983934
ISBN13: 9781138983939
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 5 2016
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
First Published in 1999. The main argument presented in this volume is that gradable adjectives like bright, dense and short denote measure functions- functions from objects to abstract representations of measurement, or scales and degrees. This proposal is shown to provide a foundation for principled explanations of a wide range of syntactic and semantic properties of gradable adjectives and the constructions in which they appear, ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives to the scopal characteristics of comparatives and the empirical effects of adjectival polarity.

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