Projecting the Adjective : The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison
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Hardback
Book Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN-10
0815333498
ISBN-13
9780815333494
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1999
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
650 grams
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Grammar, syntax & morphologyGrammar, syntax and morphology
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This text investigates the core meaning and syntactic distribution of gradable adjectives: adjectives such as "long", "short", "bright" and "dim", with respect to which objects can be ordered and compared.
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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