Gradability in Natural Language: Logical and Grammatical Foundations (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics)

Heather Burnett

ISBN 10: 0198724799 / ISBN 13: 9780198724797

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

About this Item

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett proposes a new formal reasoning system called DelTCS in which she sets out a completely new theory of gradable linguistic constructions. Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFGA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 181 x 299 x 2. Weight in Grams: 564. . 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gradability in Natural Language: Logical and Grammatical Foundations (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198724799
• ISBN 13: 9780198724797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett proposes a new formal reasoning system called DelTCS in which she sets out a completely new theory of gradable linguistic constructions.

About the Author

Heather Burnett is a CNRS researcher in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at l'Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot. In 2012, she completed her PhD thesis in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Edward Keenan and Dominique Sportiche. From 2012-2014, she was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at l'Universite de Montreal; from 2014-2015, she was a CNRS postdoctoral researcher at l'Universite de Toulouse 2-Jean Jaures; and in 2015, she was a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Her work on formal semantics, formal syntax, and language variation and change has appeared in Linguistic Variation, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Journal of Semantics.