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Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) - Softcover

Kennedy, Christopher

 
9781138983939: Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138983934 ISBN 13: 9781138983939
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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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Christopher Kennedy

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138983934
ISBN 13 
9781138983939
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264