Ebook: Gradability in natural language : logical and grammatical foundations
Author: Burnett Heather
- Tags: Grammar Comparative and general, Gradation, 17.50 grammar
- Series: Oxford studies in semantics and pragmatics vol. 7
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular subclasses of adjectival predicates--relative adjectives like tall, total adjectives like dry, partial adjectives like wet, and non-scalar adjectives like hexagonal--on the basis of how theirRead more...
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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 reasoningRead more...
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